Quotes About Self-expression

Be yourself, know your power, have confidence in what you have to contribute.

I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.

To be a good model, I'd need a lot more confidence... and more confidence to be more bare.

And I don't want to turn actress. I want to do both. I wouldn't have built the confidence to do acting if I didn't model.

But it's all about confidence and allowing yourself to put your personality into it. I really am the worst singer on the planet; I make people cry and vomit when I sing.

With any kind of artistic thing, it's a muscle, like any athlete, and the moment you're not doing it, you lose all confidence. That's why I'm terrible with down time.

If you live life on your own terms it shouldn't feel like a jail cell.

People shouldn't be ashamed of what they are. And it will help them, to gain self esteem and confidence.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

The coolest thing is when you don't care about being cool anymore. Indifference is the greatest aphrodisiac - that's what really sums up style for me.

Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.

I don't mind not being cool; I wear a cardigan.

I've always been a geek and slightly awkward… slightly umm… I was never the cool kid at school.

I was accepted by cool people because the cheerleaders thought I was cute. The jocks knew the jock-girls thought I was cute. I just chose not to hang around with them.

Conforming is not cool. Embracing who you are and what makes you different is actually what's really cool.

You don't want to be too cool. But you don't want to be too dorky. Still, I find it so much better to see a guy at a club being a dork, and having fun, than trying to be sexy.

It takes a truly cool girl to pull off short-shorts and rain boots.

He always accuses me of trying to look'cool', I was like, 'everybody tries to look cool, I just happen to be successful.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.

The deepest and rarest kind of courage has nothing to do with feats or obstacles in the outside world; and, indeed, has nothing to do with the outside world - it is the courage to be who you are.

You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.