Quotes About Self-expression

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

For some reason, I don't like the term 'model-turned-actress' - which is what I am, essentially.

I didn't want to be the next version of any player - I wanted to establish my own name.

I've managed to keep a lot of respect in radio because I write my own stuff. I've had a lot of success as a singer/songwriter. I think if you establish yourself that way, it is harder to throw you out with the bathwater.

I tried to play the etiquette game - the respect game - for too long, and it didn't work out for me.

Just because everybody else does something isn't a good enough reason to do anything.

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

I have to keep doing me. I have to not look at what everybody else is doing, or what everybody else thinks should be happening right now.

I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process.

Those who are able to watch over and beautifully tend the gardens of their minds, are the creators of life. Don't wait for some other person or thing to make your life beautiful. Become the artist of your own life!

Today I have to screw on the expression of a person thought I am at most an animal and the animal I am spirals

Offers herself up whole, without conflicts, a woman who is many things, all at once.

We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

Bit mig då, tänkte jag; jag är en sån som man biter.

I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my Life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

You wore what you had the money to buy, and then, if anyone looked down his nose at you, you found a way to tweak that nose—again with the utmost style.

I so want to give him my notebook--I want to be a real person--he should read my book--I work for him, I cook for him, I'm Doris--Doris isn't just some piece of dirt. I don't want to be innocent, I want to be the real Doris here and not that silly civilized product of the Green Moss's imagination.

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

Style makes you feel great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die.

Tis true my form is something odd But blaming me is blaming God Could I create myself anew I would not fail in pleasing you. If I could reach from pole to pole Or grasp the ocean with a span I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the man.

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

It is not a bad idea to get into the habbit of writing one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.

Don't let them tame you.

What's your name?' 'Names!' she sniffed, rolling her eyes. 'People always want names, don't they? They're mad about naming. I will let the moment name me.' she eyed Jack expectantly. 'You want me to name you?' he asked. 'People from the other side are very dull,' she sighed. 'Give yourself a name for me. I don't need naming for myself, do I?