Quotes about Individuality

It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words.

If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what's important to them.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.

Freedom is a sentiment associated with the youth. It is rebellion. It is what you feel at that age, and it is very important.

I found my own voice slowly. I don't do big tricks like Mariah Carey, so I've found this weird way of singing that works for me.

Any film that you see that has any progressive spirits that is made by any people of color or a woman is a triumph in and of itself. Whether you agree with it or not. Something that comes with some point of view and some personal perspective from a woman or a person of color is a unicorn.

I try to explain to people that the only way to be cool is to be who you truly are, and the only way to live life is to do the things that you want to do and be the person that you want to be no matter who that is or what that is or how you have to do it. That's the only way you can be genuinely happy.

When you say that I have followers, let me assure you that I do not want followers, nor would I ever encourage the idea of following.

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.