Lizz Winstead Quotes

I came to love, I came into my own.

A really big thing I've learned - and I think it's so liberating - is when you realize no one knows what they're doing.

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

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

I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history.

I see myself as a flashlight in the dark. I'm not trying to be overlooked anymore.

I think it is such an amazing moment when people realize what they are and what they can be, and they start putting themselves out into the world. I think you can see it in people when it's happening. They look different.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

I've realized the person that I've always been and this gift that I've always had just had to be brought to light. It surprised me the most that being more who I am and not who I thought I had to be would make me successful.

I invented myself.

When you really understand who you are, it enables you to fight and believe.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

I've come out of myself as a person at Chelsea and expressed myself on and off the pitch.

Anybody can be anybody.

Getting to be authentic is so liberating.

I do believe that for me, my own personal journey has been one in which my voice has also been appreciated.

It is only through hard work and awareness that we can truly own our identity.

Medellin gave me so much. It gave me back who I am: the person I am, the human being I am.

I wish when I was 15 that I realized my voice was important and that even my thoughts and my opinions had value. Had I known, I probably would've spoken up more. I probably would've found my activism sooner and become a writer sooner.

Every day, I feel I can do more things - not as a character but as myself.

Everyone at a point in their life is struggling to find out who they are and where they belong.

I think I finally have really taken ownership of myself and me as a gymnast.

I guess I always think of myself as more of the people. I always feel like a bit of an outsider.