Quotes About Self-expression

When we say no, or when we follow our dreams or true callings - people might be disappointed in our choices. Allowing people their disappointments sets us free.

If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself into your dreams.

You have to keep doing it, Even if no one is watching. The best artists, are those Who live from their expressions, Not chasing the impressions.

What is a life lived without passion? he asked himself. And what is passion, but a yearning of the soul for recognition and self-expression? The beauty within seeks beauty without.

There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.

I learned how to communicate and articulate myself from ballet. It's just insane to me, when they don't think of that as a part of our education.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

The essence of education is not to stuff you with facts but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then to show you how to give it away.

If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.

I think I'm pretty confident, and I know I'm different than everyone else, so I'm going to do what's me.

It's very important, when everyone else seems to be pigeon-holing you, to try and pigeon-hole yourself.

I could be like everyone else and stop eating, but that wouldn't make me happy.

Be you. Everyone else is already taken.

All I ever wanted to do was play the drums; I felt good about myself when I played the drums. So I worked anywhere and everywhere I could lug my drums in.

I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.

You should be able to wear exactly what you want to wear.

Nobody forced me to look any way. I just exaggerated what was already there.

It doesn't matter what people think about me on screen. I will take up and do role which excite me and are interesting.

I'd love to do something that doesn't have my stupid face in front of it. I feel like I've exhausted what I can do with my own face.

I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.

I've always been someone who's, like, more of an exhibitionist.

I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.

To expect this larger-than-life, holier-than-thou sort of existence from us is not possible. We as much want to make our own mistake as a man does.

You don't have to make yourself look like people expect you to look.