Quotes About Self-expression

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

Some days you just want to get dressed and go about your business. But if you're a woman, you can't, because there is no unmarked woman.

I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don't hurt anybody else, what you do is your own business.

The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.

I got to show off in front of my husband, who married me as I was stepping out of the business, so he had no idea that I could strut my stuff on the stage.

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

It's almost a standard tactic, really, to try to minimize any effort that people in the entertainment business or in any public occupation make to express themselves.

I think it is very important in this business to be an individual

Your working style is describe your self..

I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car?

You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool.

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.

I don't know how to drive a car. The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing.

When you play a character, you bring yourself into the character. You get a chance to shine and show your translation for the character and her state of mind.

I'm looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work - juggle, tap dance, anything I want.

Find something to do,' says Claudia. I can't, shouts Lisa, I can't I can't I can't I don't know where to find it I don't know where to look I want pink fingernails like yours I want to be you not me I want to make you look at me I want you to say Lisa how pretty you are.

Freedom would mean rest, artistic achievement, the intellectual fulfilment of my being.

Por primera vez sentía placer al mostrarse desnudo, y no a una sola persona, sino a todo un grupo; en vez de pasar simplemente, se plantó delante de todos.

Things that aren't important, that have nothing to do with winning and losing, don't have to be a rule.

I'm not in the novel, I am the novel

I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you say, I'll always be thinking about it, and if I end up doing that, I'll feel resentful because it'll feel as I didn't have a choice, and if I don't do it, I'll feel guilty because I should. Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one else.

Just be yourself. You don't have to put on an act. To be myself, I have to put on an act, Ginny said bitterly. What's that mean? It means I don't know who I am.

Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on.