Quotes About Self-expression

Courage is when you dare to be yourself, in whatever ways you want to be - to not be afraid, to just do it.

Only when you know who you are will you be able to find the courage to do what drives you-with integrity and grace.

You must be the person you have never had the courage to be.

Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.

True courage comes not just from feeling confident and strong, but from being the honest, authentic expression in yourself. Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself.

My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Courage - To tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.

I'm proud of myself that I had the courage to experiment with crazy hairstyles and some fashion things.

Sharing your story is a courageous step towards healing your own heart.

If one is forever cautious can one remain a human being?

I'm a goof. I talk too much. I tell stories. I tell cheesy Dad jokes. I'm theatrical and I'll mix things up and I'll surprise people. Those are the things that I just do because that's who I am.

You know, you always want to just do your own thing - I mean some people want to be exactly like their parents - Ibut I wanted to do my own thing and I ended up doing a kind of mix of my mom and dad.

Barry, you're over thirty years old. You owe it to your mum and dad not to sing in a group called Sonic Death Monkey.

I am a middle-aged opera queen in loafers that makes out I am a 16 year old death metal skater... It's all fake! My hair is fake, my body is fake and my teeth are kind of fake

I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.

Being Zuckerman is one long performance and the very opposite of what is thought of as being oneself.

I will own a cat and not fear being called a witch; I will dance and not fear being named a whore. I shall ride my horse and go where I please. I shall soar like a gyrfalcon. I shall live my own life and please myself. I shall be a free woman. It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.

This is a woman who has not been tamed to be as others want; she has not been cut down to fit her circumstances.

stares down at her spinach. "It looks like poop," she says.

I would rather die having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live.

I am Nothing. He liked the name. It did not make him feel worthless; on the contrary, he began to think of himself as a blank slate upon which anything could be written. The words inscribed on his soul were up to him.

I've never considered myself a writer writing stuff to sell, but as a director who writes stuff for himself to direct.