Quotes About Self-expression

I've always felt like I'm Asia: I'm the first me and I'm the first Asia that's going to walk into the room, and I'm here to change the game. That's part of who I am.

I want people to understand that there are Asians born with the crease I had surgically done to my eyes, so the goal was never to look less Asian.

There's no person I aspire to be. I'm just doing my own thing and seeing what happens - not looking to something and trying to be that.

Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell.

I'm not a very assertive person.

I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

I'm never going to be an athlete, never going to be running triathlons - I'm not that person.

Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.

I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.

Atlanta has become and has always been a place where you create your own universe.

I want to be my own person. I want to make a name for myself instead of having the name attached to me.

For podcasters, people are just being themselves in a public fashion. So when someone is attacking a podcast, they're really attacking the person, because the person is the podcast. So I think that's why podcasters take it to heart. It's a very personal form of media, probably the most personal form of media.

I don't even attempt to sing.

I think the women that we dress, the women who buy our clothes, they have a certain strength. It could be about the clothes, it could be about themselves. It's just attractive.

I don't think men dress to look attractive; I think they dress to look cool.

I don't play an attractive game. That's fine with me.

I don't think I'll ever get to a place where I'm super kumbaya coming into an audition room.

I don't believe in auditioning. I'm a bad auditioner. I don't like it.

I've always been very shy at auditioning; I'm not so great at it.

I never went on auditions because I would be terrible at it, so I just did stand-up.

I don't even really try to do something different. I just do what's authentic to me.

I don't know if anyone should do anything that's not authentic to them.

I always wanted to make sure that I was honest to myself and that people wanted to hear an opinion that was authentic... I wanted Man Repeller to be a voice for women who felt like they didn't have a voice or for women who didn't know how to express their voice.

Once I was able to be my more authentic self, I felt like that's when my career really took off. I was just my own voice.