Jennifer Jason Leigh Quotes

I really appreciate people who have their own thing going on and stick to it - super authentic. The people who wear something and you're just like "oh, it looks so good!" it's because it's them. They're not trying to be anything.

I don't think I'm very much like anyone else, really. I'm sure there are aspects of other actors that I share, but I don't see anybody else and go, "Damn, they stole my thing." I'm me, and I like that there are people who have an appreciation for that.

People laughed at the way I dressed, but that was the secret of my success. I didn't look like anyone.

Finally and most important of all, authenticity means that you must do what you do the way you do it and allow everyone else the same courtesy. There was a time I wanted to be like every famous writer that ever lived. I tried to copy styles, reframe information, use similar artwork. I almost drove myself crazy! Now I just do what I do. I have mentors. There are people whose work I admire, but I write the way I write. I eat the way I eat. I dress the way I dress. I can't believe that God made us each so unique only to have us do everything the same way.

The women's choice of footwear doesn't speak for their most important inner life, but rather it tells a story - this is an opportunity to express themselves. I think the thing that's most compelling about other people is when you don't look like you're trying to dress like your friend, colleague, neighbor, or anything else. That's a very arresting and exciting and compelling quality to possess - not everybody has the courage to walk out the door feeling like themselves, but once they do, it's thrilling to witness.

My style is not like anyone's. I'm not a typical wrestler.

Find your own style, whatever it is. Whatever is inside you, bring that out. I think that's when you have something unique.

I think you just have to be yourself instead of catering your sound to a specific audience, make the music you want to make, and the audience will find you.

I must never change my way - because of critics who may not like it - I preserve my language and my style.

To be honest, I don't see anyone out there who plays the way I do.

No other Hank Williams has ever screamed like I have. I guess that's my way of officially being me.

I'm not trying to be the younger, blonder version of anyone. I'm trying to be Tomi.

Certain people like the way I make films, and others do not. I've come to terms with the fact that there's no other way I can make films. If I tried to do it in a different way, it would never work.

That the best piece of art a person is capable of making is the one that only they could create.

Everybody always going to sound like somebody. You got to separate yourself.

I haven't tried to model myself on anyone. I have my own action, and that suits me.

I like to have personality in my way of dressing. I think being normal is a bit boring.

I am not at all stylish. For me, style is a state of mind and individuality.

I have my own thing going on; I don't want to imitate anyone else.

Everyone has their own style. It's unique; no one person's style is wrong.

I don't change my style for anybody.

If you try to sound like somebody else, it will never work because we already have that person. You are noticed when you try to be an original sound.

With technology, everything is available at the touch of a button. But I'm not someone whose world revolves around trends. I like to be unique in whatever I do.

My music is not like everybody gonna love it, it's really what I make of it.

The thing that I tell young people is everybody is unique in their approach to the music, and you have to protect that.