Halsey Quotes

I never want to be just one thing - I want to be multidimensional.

Sometimes, I am also identified as a civil rights leader or a human rights activist. I would also like to be thought of as a complex, three-dimensional, flesh-and-blood human being with a rich storehouse of experiences, much like everyone else, yet unique in my own way, much like everyone else.

My life is not a sound bite.

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

I'm a lot of things at once. I want my audience to choose the side they like most about me.

I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.

Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing.

You can be layered and more than one thing - you can exist outside of the box.

Dr. Seuss said, 'No one can be you-er than you,' and Oscar Wilde said, 'Be yourself because everyone else is taken.' So I just try to continue to be who I am and don't change that. And I'm a little chameleon, so I can fit in wherever I am.

I am just myself, and who I am is a lot.

I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

We shouldn't dwell on what is 'perfect.' We should celebrate our uniqueness.

You should have the opportunity to be more than one person with different people because you have that within you. It's not like you're faking it. If everyone knows you so well and can always get a hold of you, then you're stuck to this thing that people think you are. You should have the opportunity to reinvent yourself. Because you do. Naturally.

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

I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.

I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy.