Mary Steenburgen Quotes

It's nice to stand out and not have to conform to all the beauty standards that just don't even make sense anymore.

It used to bother me - having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I'd fit in, but I hated them and couldn't wait for them to grow back. Now I embrace them. I realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful.

I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me.

We should give people the freedom to express who they are.

I want to show the world that if you want to be a bearded lady you are allowed to do it without being discriminated against.

I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent or child.

When I started, I'd hear other people saying, 'God, she's so bizarre-looking,' because I didn't look like the girl next door. But I was just normal. I was the girl next door. There were people in high fashion I could better relate to who were doing something more interesting and not talking this sort of rubbish.

To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.

I must be allowed to be as I am.

I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it.

Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around.

You can do anything and be a star. You can dress like however you want, and you can do whatever you want. If you wanna wear meat suits like Lady Gaga, good. She's freaking amazing! She's doing that, and she's unbelievable. I can wear T-shirts and still be great, too. So that's just what I'm proving to people.

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.

I think that my music is really empowering. I just want people to know - especially young people, but really everyone - that you don't have to be so caught up in what everyone else is thinking. You don't have to be the coolest, most popular person. You can just be you and be vulnerable.

I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to compromise? I never understood that. I decided to try to be myself and to live by my own values rather than those of others.

My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.

You can wear whatever, be whatever, do whatever you want.

Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.

I think we were just coming out and being ourselves, instead of operating within boundaries that other people had created. We decided to do away with those boundaries.

But I think it's intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.

Whipping your hair means not being afraid to be yourself.

I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.

There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment - you can truly be yourself.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

I do not want to work to correspond to an image.