Quotes About Self-expression

In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.

I'm trying to say that I think doing what you feel can't always be easy, but at least you're being true to yourself.

Don't condemn me to the prison of your bullshit.

They will call you crazy once you stop living someone else's dream and start living your own.

I bring to a role everything I am, was and hope to be.

I do a lot of things hopin I never had to fit in, so tryin to keep up with my progress is like a dead end.

More than anything, I think the best thing you can do as an artist is just stay as true to yourself as possible and hope that your fan base will appreciate that.

Like anything, you just need to stay true to who you are and hope that social constructs don't get in the way of accomplishing your goals.

I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits)

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.

I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.

I really hope that people feel permission to talk about their own troubles, but also to celebrate themselves.

In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them.

I hope I don't have to act in one of my own projects again.

Dressing down is a crime against humanity.

I'm not trying to redefine sexuality or humanity or say that my answer is right and yours is wrong. I'm just happy with who I am.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

I got my hair highlighted because I felt some strands were more important than others.

Wearing that? Wouldn't you fancy a shapeless cardigan instead? You rock a shapeless cardigan, honey.

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

If you're a fish and you want to be a fish-stick, you have to have very good posture.

I've learned to have absolutely no regrets about any jokes I've ever done.

You have to maintain who you are as a person and stay true to yourself - that's my biggest moral as a human being, as well as a very self-deprecating sense of humor.