I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.
How we dress is, as far as I can tell, the only inescapably public choice that we have. People don't need to know what you eat, people don't need to know who you have sex with. But there's no escaping what you wear and the fact that you've chosen it. Even if you insist that you don't care about fashion, that's your statement. It's really one realm of life where you are forced to make your own statement.
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only.
There aren't any messages in my social protestations.
Flags say something. You put a rainbow flag on your windshield, and you're saying something.
I think it's important for comedians to do our little part. I don't do it carelessly. I do it thoughtfully. I don't try to just shock. I try to make a statement.
Fashion, historically, is how people make statements about themselves or communicate.
No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one.
The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.
In particular I want to talk about natural black hair, and how it's not just hair. I mean, I'm interested in hair in sort of a very aesthetic way, just the beauty of hair, but also in a political way: what it says, what it means.
Fashion is something that you can attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction, the meaning of it is born.
In today's world everything is political. We are a statement - our clothes, haircut, the way we act.
People like to come up to me and tell me that I’ve got nice ink. Except these tattoos aren’t just decorations. They are declarations. Every tattoo I have tells its own story about who I am. Drug-free. Honor. And a war against the system.
I am a professional actor and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do. They may inadvertently do it, but it's because of the script, not the acting.
Music and fashion combined make such a lethal weapon in my opinion.
Fashion should be a kind of bouillon de culture.
'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people love it. People love to be challenged in that way.
There was a time when people liked to take Shakespeare and twist him around to make whatever social or political statement they wanted to make.
I would wear a turban to Whole Foods.
Shoes have a meaning.
Fashion is totally political, the icon of a political system.
My hair is an aesthetic choice… At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.
If you were a kid and you wanted to come out and make a statement now, you'd have to really dig deep to find something that no one has exposed already.
