Quotes About Expression

Only an idiot would open an exhibition saying, 'Look at my awesome work.'

I think drag helps move us in the direction of loosening up the man/woman binary. The idea that you're one, or the other, it's false. The more that as a society we become a little looser, more open to laugh about gender, that's the direction the world needs to go in.

No one got anywhere by being too scared to open their mouth in case nobody laughed.

I've always found myself to be most free and creatively open when I'm on my own.

There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.

We call ourselves comedy writer-performers, and that encompasses everything, and I certainly have a very open mind about it.

We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.

Drag has always been an open space where anyone within the LGBT community can express their creativity.

I am only really attracted to people who are very open-minded and embrace and celebrate people who live outside the gender norm.

I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.

My fans are so open-minded and trust that whatever I'm doing, in whatever moment of time, is the most accurate form of expression that I have to offer them. There are no expectations - only a journey which we all share together.

Everyone has their own journey, and for me, going from singing background to writing songs has truly opened doors for me and has also helped me find myself as an artist in terms of what I want to say and the style of music I want to have.

'I Get Around' came on one day. I'd never heard the Beach Boys before. The sound was so fresh to me. That was the first time when I truly was gripped by the power of music. It opened my eyes to the heights that music can achieve.

I've written immense love letters that are supposed to be opened over days at a time.

People are much more loose if you are having fun. I had a basketball player who was really soft-spoken, and then we played Connect Four with him, and he really opened up!

I think the first person who kind of broke my mind was probably Jimi Hendrix. Listening to him opened my mind up to where you can take music and how far you can take rock n' roll.

Acting opened me up.

'Fifty Shades' opened the door and made it easier to write about any issue that's controversial. It has helped other authors talk honestly.

I agree with Ru that it'll never be mainstream, because mainstream means everybody knows it, everybody loves it, everybody accepts it. That's never gonna happen with drag, but it's definitely become more mainstreamed for people that never knew anything about it, being opened up to it as a form of art.

I think - I know - the normalization of drag and drag culture has definitely opened up people's minds in some parts of the world.

When television emerged, it opened up many avenues for actors like me, but after a point, it also became very limiting.

I got a dollhouse when I was six, and my sister would always say, 'You realize you're just talking to yourself. What are you doing?' That kind of opened up this creative need to tell stories.

No one in my family plays music. But since I was very little, I would go around the house singing and dancing. And when I was 8, my parents asked me to get up and sing something at a family meal. I had my eyes closed, singing - la la la la la - and when I opened them, the whole family was crying.

So when I went to Arista, I had a period of writing where I suddenly was unrestricted. I wasn't writing for a band for the first time. It opened up a whole other arena for me to work within.