Quotes About Expression

Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.

My songs tend to be about love. It drives some of the greatest songs. I'm looking forward to seeing what people make of my writing.

I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people around me, so you just sort of keep this antenna up and on the lookout for things to say.

People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing about them.

In the studio, I like to have the music first: I'll sit with the music for like an hour, on loop, and just let it tell me what it feels I should do.

For the auditioning process, I love to move my body around, maybe dance a little bit, get myself in a really loose place where I'm free to play.

Becoming an actor let me escape the me that I had in my heart, which was I'm a loser.

I have a lot to say, and if I'm not No. 1, I can't say it.

Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course.

I think it's fun playing a part that lots of other people have played, in a way.

If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.

My favorite saying is, 'If it's too loud, turn it up.'

Actors die so loud.

I'm a big, loud character and some people don't like that.

I've been parading around, leading people, being loud, since forever.

Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.

I don't like to sing loud.

Look: the day I've made a movie that I think is really good, I hope I say it out loud so somebody can say, 'Then you probably made the worst movie of your entire career.'

When I played Imunique on 'Love That Girl,' that was on the other side of comedy - loud and out there.

I don't want just attitude and loud opinion.

Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!

I hope that people will say that 'she told the truth, she told her truth, she wasn't afraid to live her truth, and she wasn't afraid to live her truth out loud.' That's what I want my legacy to look like.

I'm a gay man and a proud gay man and a loud gay man.

I've got quite a loud voice.