Kirstin Maldonado Quotes

No task is so humble that it does not offer an outlet for individuality.

If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.

Having grown up quite shy and quiet, it's important that I mark out who I am in the world through my work.

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

Accept your own and be yourself!

Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.

Personality begins where comparison ends.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

It's been helpful to have so many opportunities to look different so people stop pigeonholing you.

Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.

Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the only accessory that I get to choose. I usually wear a yellow cloth belt with cherries or a leather belt with a beautiful tree buckle that I got at a thrift store.

I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it's up to them to find that quality and let it live.

If I walk away from music, I walk away from myself.

Acting was a godsend. I found myself because I loved acting.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

Trying to give an individual a voice has always kind of been my mission in my life. As an actor, I've always seen that was something that needed to be done. You need to find that voice inside of you so that you can stand up and be who you really are.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

I choose to express myself.