Alexander McQueen Quotes

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

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.

I'm starting to find my own style.

If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

I try to do different things, beautiful things, to play the game the way I see it, and I think I'm doing it pretty well.

The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

If you live your life only following the path you think is approved or acceptable, or the one you think is expected of you, you’ll be making a huge mistake. Not a single successful person… has ever done great things because they played it safe. You’ve got to be true to yourself.

When you’re young, whatever you do that makes you stand out is a frightening thing. You learn later that that’s what you want to do, stand out.

Progress is the exploration of our own error.

Do what you can't and experience the beauty of the mistakes you make.

Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself.

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

I'm one Pia Zadora, the same way all the time. That's why I'm happy. It took me a long time to get to the point where could be myself all the time.

We all need a firm sense of identity.

What is the purpose of being human and alive without doing new things?

All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.

I think skating helped me find myself.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

I've constantly tried new things, even as a child, and have always been obsessed with pink. Now I'm just a little more ladylike and fearless. You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.

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

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

On the first album I was saying, that's just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I'm afraid of something? No. I'm just going to be myself.

Once you get everything out of your head about what everybody else is going to think, will radio play it - and I hope they do, I really do - once you shed all of that and just be who you are, that's who I am. That's taken a lot of growing up. I've come into myself musically and as a woman, and I hope to keep growing. If you don't grow, you die.