Fay Weldon Quotes

I think it's an okay thing to express yourself.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

In every role, a part of me gets to come out.

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.

You blows who you is.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

Anytime I feel squeezed into a box, I just lash out. My gut reaction is to strike. It's a different character onstage: there's a whole dark sexuality that's completely different from me. You know, I don't let anybody know who I really am.

Being able to express yourself is one of the hardest things in the world.

People need to express themselves. The more you do that, the better a person you become.

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.

At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.

I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.

Growing up, I wasn't as comfortable expressing myself as I am now, and I think that's why I chose acting: because it's acceptable to have your feelings. It's a place that they want you to feel. Whereas in life, growing up, it was 'Be quiet!' and 'Keep it to yourself.'

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

During 'Hawthorne', I was constantly trying not to be too outrageous and keep it serious. This has been so refreshing for me because it's such a good outlet for the inner me to just be. That's the whole point of 'Glee' anyways - to just be who you are and that's enough. I really feel that way on set.

But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.'

I want to show all sides of myself. I mean, I don't want to howl at the moon my whole life, you know?

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.