Manny MUA Quotes

I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder.

I started coming into my own at 30, discovering what's important to me, not caring what other people think.

I've had so many moments where seeing other women be fully and truly and authentically themselves, and express that, has given me permission. Once you see it happening, you're like, "Oh, I have permission to do that, too."

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

The beautiful thing is I have sort of grown up. I don't care if I'm highbrow or not anymore.

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

I realize it's a cliche, almost, that coming out of the closet is a very healthy and empowering thing to do, but for me, it really has been a truly wonderful thing.

I truly believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

When I was younger, I used to try to fit in, but now I'm much more comfortable with just being myself.

I felt free once I realized I was never going to fit the narrow mold society wanted me to fit in.

I'm really embracing that very out, very loud, very free persona that I am now but that I didn't get to be in high school.

Even though I was 34 or 35 or something. I was like, “People can do that? Women can actually just say what they think?” It was an extraordinary experience to do that movie with her because every day was a lesson in how to just be yourself.

I'm not coming out trying to prove anything to anyone, like, 'Oh, I'm in assless chaps!' or 'I can't be tamed!' I've already been through that phase. I started at 23, you know?

It wasn't until I moved to New York that I decided to make a conscious effort to be myself.

One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself.

I just have to be myself, and not worry about everyone looking at me and watching.

Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.

The point of life that I'm currently at is a 'me right now' type of attitude. I am 37 years-old, my son is in college and my daughter is in high school. I'm becoming okay with me. I can't live life as an artist or person being someone that someone else has tried to mold me into. I'm not going to put on a dress that's two sizes too small. I'm custom making my own clothes so that they'll never fit anyone else if you know what I mean.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.