Form Quote by Dee Snider

Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me.

— Drew Barrymore

I felt like, what better way for people to understand me by taking the initiative in giving my real name, my name that moms…

— Kendrick Lamar

It was really tiring always pretending to be someone else. Not my life, not my real name, nothing.

— Lee Hyeon-seo

The way you see yourself is important, you see. It's as if you carve yourself out of your own interpretation. And so I became…

— Philip Ridley

You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.

— Ai Weiwei

I had already just sort of decided okay it's just never going to happen. So when they - when my name was called it…

— Debra Messing

I was brought up to express myself only when asked to express myself, and then to do so in a way that's pleasing to…

— Patty Griffin

I was destined to express myself.

— Gina Carano

I didn't like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me...

— Joni Mitchell

I wanted to make a name for myself.

— Katie Cassidy

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.

— Daniel Tammet

I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf