Quotes About Self-expression

If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.

I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.

As I've gotten older, I've realized the element that sounds like The Gaslight Anthem that's mine is always going to be me. The other three-fourths of it is going to be the other guys. I can't stop doing what I do naturally, whether I'm in The Gaslight Anthem or my own thing.

You can't be afraid to embarrass yourself sometimes.

I always wanted to be an actress, but I was embarrassed to say so, and somehow I found myself in the dance track. I'm very competitive, and I wanted to be the best in that field, too, although it didn't really speak to me.

Some people are both genders. I think you just come out the way you come out, and you have to embrace it honestly.

I think it's really important to embrace what's different about yourself.

We should all try to embrace our own quirkiness.

People should embrace themselves.

For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.

I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.

I have feelings. I'm not emotionally stunted.

I'd like to have a different look for every film. As an actor, I think I should put more emphasis on my performance than on my looks.

I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.

I feel everyone should feel empowered to live their best life.

That's what 'LM5' is about, empowering women to be who they are.

Female empowerment is very strong in my life and that's how I am.

I don't want to emulate anyone.

We did a thing that we would call we call 'hirstories.' H - I - R - S - T - O - R - Y. I would enact a young Mort. And that always felt - it was so funny - it felt more difficult than playing Maura.

Every day, we all make the critical decision of what we're going to wear, because many of the people we encounter in a day don't get to know anything more about us than how we present ourselves. That decision - totally on our own terms - is a powerful one.

I'm not a wallflower, and I encourage girls to live that way.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

I was just so fortunate to have parents who encouraged me to try things and do what I wanted.

At the end of the day, l just want to be myself. I don't set out to be like anyone else.