Boy George Quotes

I don't feel like I have to be the nice girl.

I grew up in the Midwest, and I was a short, fat, little Jewish kid... but it was just different. People didn't understand, so I had to deal with it. One day, I physically dealt with it, and it never happened again. I'm not saying that's the way to do it, but you have to stand up for yourself, period, end of story.

All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them.

I'm a bombshell, so I'm going to do me. If I want to go platinum, I'm going platinum.

I guess my personality is that of a modern, strong Chinese woman. I don't believe in destiny. There are many things that can be changed. I don't like to be defeated by difficulties. I love freedom, so when I am shaping a character, I usually do it the way I want. I always find some part of my own character in a role.

Most chick singers say 'if you hurt me, I'll die'... I say, 'if you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.'

No one nor anything can silence me.

Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained who they are despite being told what they were, it was TED.

I think if a woman is feeling aggressive, she should be aggressive and not hold back.

I'm a tomboy. I used to get into a lot of fights. Don't know why - self-expression, I guess.

They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down.

At 13 years old, I was doing grown-man things, so I know who I am, and I'm telling people who I am.

In an age of bullies, we cannot afford to be a sissy.

Even as a child, Muhammad Ali got perverse pleasure out of being different. He liked the attention it got him, but most of all he just liked being himself: odd and independent.

I feel like what made 'Nasty' so fire was it was finally something that they couldn't take from me.

I will continue to be good but if people think I don't have a voice and that I don't take stand for myself, that's what I will do. I will show that I have another side to me.

People tend to assume I was terribly self-conscious about my height. In fact, I've always been perfectly comfortable with the way I am. And if anyone gave me any stick, they soon found I was quite capable of giving it back.

In high school, I listened to Lady Gaga and I was really obsessed with just being who you are and owning that experience - she was a really big inspiration in that aspect to me and my friends, who were young and growing up, and making our way through the city and the world.

I wear what I want to wear and appear on stage as myself.

When I was younger, I was always that person that loved to get stuck in. When my mum and grandma used to come and watch me, I used to make sure that I wouldn't let anybody push me around and not let anybody bully me.

Some people have tried to change me and tell me what to do, but I haven't done it, and it's worked for me.

You can push my buttons all you want and say whatever you want about me, and that's fine... fighters do that.

I've always thought of myself as a strong person. However, it's taken me a while to fully find my voice.

I grew up really being able to stand up to authority.

I am who I am. You can either love it or hate it.