Erica Durance Quotes

I can't not be who I am.

My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has become a place where only what is cool is good. Do you cut the movie on the basis of the beat of modernity or the basis of the beat of your own heart?

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

I can't think of anything worse, really, than to try to live up to someone else's expectations of what you should be. You don't make art by consensus.

If you think about what everyone else will think, you forget to just make music.

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

You make up a character, there's always gonna be parts of you that, like it or not, shine through.

You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

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

Be yourself, let you come through.

People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice.

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

There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.

It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.

The reason I put make-up on or wear the costume is to try and find my own style. It's like my guitar style - I'm just trying to be an original artist.

Always be yourself. At the end of the day, that's all you've really got; when you strip everything down, that's all you've got, so always be yourself.

All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

I'm starting to find my own style.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

We're all going to keep telling love stories, we're all going to tell hero stories. It's all a question of what your own thumbprint, your own DNA, is, and what it brings to the table that makes it unique.

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.