Quotes About Self-expression

I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray… I am myself the matter of my book.

The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know how to be himself.

At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.

Someone once told me that flaws are what give people real beauty

Choosing to be an artist . . . is choosing to mine deep caverns. It's like getting lost in the darkness and spending the rest of your life trying to find your way.

I confess... if I typo a Facebook post I will edit it. I know it's only Facebook but it's an editing sickness.

Later that evening, Norma Jeane said good night to Bill and returned home. Standing before a mirror she picked up a lipstick and scribbled, 'This is the end of Norma Jeane.' Marilyn Monroe was born.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

Look at you, all Rocky Horror Picture Ho.

You've got to learn to let people be themselves,

Be bold & genuine, dare to walk in the uncharted territories, follow your feelings passionately, however unusual without the fear of being criticized, follow it through and get MickeyMized!

There is an actor in every character you are playing. We are sons, daughters, students, lovers, friends, employees, students, parents, etc. Be true and real under every skin you wear, don't be characterized, be yourself first, sincere, real and get MickeyMized.

There is enough room in the sky to accommodate as many stars, to shine. Stop the rush and chase, approach life with compassion and be unfazed. Reach out there and spread the light of your unique talent, brilliance of your art and let this world be illuminized, get MickeyMized.

And the secret of human life, the universal secret, the root secret from which all other secrets spring, is the longing for more life, the furious and insatiable desire to be everything else without ever ceasing to be ourselves, to take possession of the entire universe without letting the universe take possession of us and absorb us; it is the desire to be someone else without ceasing to be myself, and continue being myself at the same time I am someone else...

Shaping one's own reality, living in a world one has created, can be as enjoyable as writing a symphony. No

Ne valgis ir g?rimas dievotum? rodo.Kvaila paisyti, kaip žmogus miega –virviniame gulte ar ant p?k? patal?. Valgau, k? noriu, ir miegu, kaip noriu, ir niekas negali man?s už tai smerkti. Tegul mano, kad aš kvaila, jei nori. Man tik geriau.

If you don't conform to other people's ideas of what is right, correct, and proper, then don't worry. It is your right to look at things differently. Guilt should not enter the picture. There is already enough guilt, blame, and self-condemnation in the Universe to go around.

Don't abdicate this highest of all responsibilities: to think for yourself.

I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton I'm not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I'm a black man.

On days like this, baseball would make Michael as happy as it ever did. No umpires. No coaches. No rules except the ones you made up.

Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself.

What do women want? Shoes.

Clothing was magic. Casey believed this. She would never admit this to her classmates in any of her women's studies courses, but she felt that an article of clothing could change a person... Each skirt, blouse, necklace, or humble shoe said something - certain pieces screamed, and others whispered seductively, but no matter, she experienced each item's expression keenly, and she loved this world. every article suggested an image, a life, a kind of woman, and Casey felt drawn to them.

His presence would prove to the world that she was a good person, an educated person, a liberal person. Noa didn't care about being Korean when he was with her; in fact, he didn't care about being Korean or Japanese with anyone. He wanted to be, to be just himself, whatever that meant; he wanted to forget himself sometimes.