Diablo Cody Quotes

I am always who I am, and anyone who's known me forever will tell you that. I guess there's enough of a child in me that that's important.

I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head.

I know I'm grown, but there's a part of me who will eternally be six years old.

I think that every man has a 16-year-old girl inside of him.

When I visited my family in Virginia, I tracked down my seventh-grade best friend and sat in TGI Fridays near a mall for hours, laughing while her daughter took insane-looking selfies on my phone.

I've grown up, everyone's got to grow up. But there's something inside me, I'm always going to have that little sort of, how do you say, child streak.

None of the people I grew up with had identity problems. We all had perfectly marvelous lives.

Selfie is referred to the new age 'autograph' for our fans nowadays! Also, I like clicking selfies.

I was a really girly girl when I was younger. I only wore pink until I was at least 12. Think of me in culottes with a Bagpuss T-shirt and frizzy hair. Oh, and I was a fat child. It was bad news.

At the beginning of my career, it was really difficult for my family to understand what I was working on, but they supported me anyway and gave me the best advice, which was to always be myself.

When it comes to having conversations with girls what I hear from them is that there is a lot of pressure to look a certain way, act a certain way, perform a certain way, and there are very mixed messages. We are telling them, 'Be yourself, be true to who you are,' but what does that mean in a society of comparison, competition, and individualism?

I remember being a kid and always feeling a little different than all my friends.

The children in 'Nobody Knows' had a resonance with me. The children are projections of myself.

Whether you're a woman, a transwoman, a person of color, I feel like Instagram is really important for the creation and framing of the self.

I dyed my hair blonde when I was 13 because I wanted to be like my mum and my gran, who both have blonde hair.

Growing up, it was always a huge battle with my mom to let me color my hair or add extensions.

I started my own chat show on Instagram, that also takes time. Then, I have also been singing and painting. I actually enjoy the down time that I get.

I love doing YouTube. That's where my heart is, and so it makes me sad when I can't put a good, fun, energetic video out, because that's what I love to do - and that's my passion. And that's who I am.

If I have to give up good fashion for a relationship, I don't want a relationship.

I just want to be seen as what I am - just look beyond TV/social media, and you will see what kind of person I am.

The anonymity of the internet has been completely abandoned - everything's so tied to your identity and sense of self now. It's hard for me to see that changing, but that's why I wrote a love letter to something that once was.

As a southern woman, we often define ourselves by who we are with. But I wanted my life to be built differently.

You're your truest self when you're young, and when somebody says something, and you're like, 'Oh, maybe I'm not normal,' you shut it down. It's always a process to rediscover those parts of yourself.

I was thinking about how we're so in touch with our image now. That conception of ourselves, in a very physical sense, can be oppressive. You find people wanting to be in dark places, not really see themselves, see themselves as a filtered image. A curated image.

I think that the child in me is ever dominant, but that doesn't make me less of a woman.