Top 122 Express Yourself Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Express Yourself Quotes from famous people such as Darcey Bussell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Louise Linton, Gareth Barry, Khalid, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Dance is a great way to express yourself.

Dance is a great way to express yourself.
Darcey Bussell
I think what happened to me was I was so lucky to have made ‘Secretary’ so young. It’s unusual to be given an opportunity to express yourself as an actress that young and that thoroughly.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
L.A. is uninhibited: You’re encouraged to express yourself, wear what you want, do what you want, and to speak from a very emotionally honest place. D.C. is different. In Washington, you have to be much more careful about what you say and do. Especially about what you wear!
Louise Linton
British managers tend to be a bit more hands off, let you express yourself in training.
Gareth Barry
Once you’re comfortable with the way that you’re dressing, you express yourself a lot more, and you’re just able to have a lot more fun.
Khalid
It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions.
Jodelle Ferland
If you want to express yourself, it is difficult to be by yourself. You must have people around you who understand the same music. It is like being the chef d’orchestra. They need you, but you need them desperately.
Hubert de Givenchy
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
Niels Bohr
My art and poetry is very political now. Because you’ve got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.
Jack Bowman
Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.
Ezra Koenig
When you’re doing a radio show, you can express yourself.
Adam Carolla
Music expresses – you express yourself with music.
Rita Ora
In acting class, you’re trained to express yourself as much as you can.
Jesse Eisenberg
I think if you have any fear or shame, it’s really hard to want to express yourself.
Rumer Willis
Novels are not about expressing yourself, they’re about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.
Zadie Smith
There’s a whole different way to express yourself in music and the other arts, and it hopefully complements other things you do in technology.
Paul Allen
If your character doesn’t express himself or doesn’t feel confident expressing himself, then you don’t express yourself.
Eddie Marsan
Being able to express yourself under the name Erika Jayne and saying things people want to say but wouldn’t, or doing things that people want to do but don’t, or taking that extra leap of faith or pushing the levels of sexuality, or whatever, that helps Erika Girardi stand on her own two feet and be calm and peaceful.
Erika Jayne
Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
Russell Simmons
Sometimes it’s important to get out of that comfort zone and, I think, try new things, and sometimes you can express yourself better.
Gautam Gambhir
I think, first of all, you need to love what you’re doing, and then this helps in the comedian for its part in everything-but the moment you enjoy what you’re doing, you try to express yourself, to find your way, and every time is different, of course.
Cecilia Bartoli
We all are scared. First of all, as a culture, we’re constantly told that if you start to express yourself or express your needs, you’re needy. You’re too emotional. And they put all these negative connotations on it. That has started since we were kids, especially for men.
Karamo Brown
Being able to express yourself is one of the hardest things in the world.
Roisin Murphy
If you’ve got the chance to really speak your mind and do what you feel and express yourself how you want, then this is freedom. Drag is freedom.
Conchita Wurst
It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions.
Jodelle Ferland
The need to express yourself in Los Angeles makes the city so vibrant. If I lived here, it would be lovely to be in a cool new high-rise looking out over a city that is exploding.
Marcel Wanders
I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself – that there aren’t really any rules.
Agnes Obel
I saw the Village as a place you could escape to, to express yourself. When I first went there, I wrote and performed poetry. Then I drew portraits for a couple of years. It took a while before I thought about picking up a guitar.
Richie Havens
Westminster politics is very unattractive, and people are channelling political energy into more inward questioning – there are a lot of musicians whose songs are all about feeling, and it’s almost like that’s the only safe place to express yourself.
Johnny Flynn
Makeup and clothing and all that should be a fun way to be creative and express yourself. Just like in nature, where birds have all the colors. But instead, it’s all focused on the aesthetics of being attractive to men. Even if you really don’t think it is that, that’s what we’re doing.
Lauren Mayberry
There is always something that you will take away from each project. There definitely has to be something that you have said yes to in the first place. In some projects, it’s the freedom to express yourself more; in some, it’s a bigger sense of camaraderie, and somewhere, it’s the money that is great.
Tabu
Every Hispanic player goes through that. It's a lot of

Every Hispanic player goes through that. It’s a lot of hard work, to be able to communicate with your teammates. English is fundamental to be able to express yourself fully in a game.
Carlos Ruiz
As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing classical arias, but I love rock n’ roll and jazz standards.
Idina Menzel
The energy in the banjo, and the beef in the bass. They’re good tools to express yourself.
Ben Lovett
You can’t just express yourself and it becomes a movie. You have to get beyond that.
Zal Batmanglij
Social media should be more like a cocktail party than anything else. You can have your fun jokes, and you can also express yourself and your beliefs. It’s a conversation, not a sledgehammer.
David Harbour
I think it’s being able to do both, obviously being able to play your role in the team and those responsibilities but also being able to have that freedom… to express yourself in the way that you play.
Tobin Heath
Layering is the best way to express yourself through jewelry; each piece makes a statement, each piece has its story and if curated and layered well, it can enhance your look and make sure you stand out.
Masaba Gupta
Part of being an artist is that you want to express yourself to as many people as possible. But you don’t want to exclude anyone.
Ed Kowalczyk
Novels are not about expressing yourself, they’re about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.
Zadie Smith
When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that – in real life – I wasn’t doing.
Ian Mckellen
If you express yourself too much, you’re considered weak.
Sylvester Stallone
If you express yourself too much. you’re overacting; if you underplay it too much, it can come across as wooden.
Ben Hardy
You get onto the stage; you can shout and express yourself. Your negative energy gets consumed.
Jaideep Ahlawat
I believe in finding somewhere you can express yourself, play without fear, play with everything you have. When you find that place, stay.
Philippe Coutinho
It’s hard to be creative and to see your potential when you’ve not even got ground zero, when you’ve not even got the foundations to be able to express yourself.
Bugzy Malone
I don’t think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
Barry Williams
In life, you should be allowed to express yourself. People are happier like this.
Hector Bellerin
In fashion, you express yourself however you want. You express your personality.
Daniel Sturridge
To articulate the ideas in your head, you need formal education, so you study music theory to do that. And that’s the only responsibility that you have – to make that process work for you and express yourself. In this life, nothing is more important.
Van Hunt
When you are in a live-action movie, you have so many more options to express yourself. You can use your body and your gestures and facial expressions. When you are doing an animated movie, you really only have your voice.
Jesse Eisenberg
As a youngster, that’s how it was: you tried to express yourself out on the pitch as much as you can. Maybe I stopped trying things when I got into the first team, but now I’m more comfortable and doing things off the cuff again.
Daniel Sturridge
It’s great to express yourself and tell other people’s stories and get into the minds of people who aren’t like you.
Antonia Thomas
If you are knowledgeable about something and are able to talk about it, you should be able to express yourself.
Jalen Rose
I don’t think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
Barry Williams
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
Niels Bohr
One of the best ways to express yourself is the way you dress.
Willie Cauley-Stein
Do you believe in Madonna? Because Lady Gaga has got something to say about ‘Express Yourself,’ and she’s turned Madonna’s fourth-best single of 1989 into her own instant-classic club anthem, ‘Born This Way.’
Rob Sheffield