Nicole Byer Quotes

If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.

I do believe in self-help.

I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs!

I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.

Women call me all the time and tell me, 'You inspired me to get out of a bad situation,' or 'You inspired me to take the reigns for myself and go and do this.' I try to tell people to live their best life, and do what you know you need to do for yourself and your family. You need to be supported.

When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.'

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it.

I don't want to be a princess who sits on the sidelines; I want to be present and actively involved. It's a life with a purpose.

When you think about growing and being empowered yourself, it is what you've been able to do for other people that leaves you the fullest.

I did my one-woman show in order to show people what to do with me.

You don't have to be something to do something.

I realized that if I don't like something, I can change it. If I don't feel comfortable with something, then I have a voice to say it's not cool.

My father didn't want me to go to New York City, and I was determined to go. Learning to give myself the permission to be who I was in the world and to make my own choices was hard.

I'm not a shouter, but I like to put my stamp on things.

My earliest memory of freedom was when I was about 14 and I stopped caring what people thought about me! I was so free and in charge! That whole year I was exploring myself, and I was so 'free' that I got sent away to boarding school.

I hope that people understand that with education, we can be our own superhero.

Drag was always looked at as a stepchild, and I wasn't willing to sit at the kid's table anymore so I took what's mine. You can't depend on other people to give you what you want; you have to take it.