Who You Are Quotes - Page 5

• Acting is acting, and who you are will still remain to be who you are. You know, that part won't change it. It will change your wallet, you know? It'll change your life. It will open opportunities for you, but it's not going to change your character.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Character, Opportunity, Acting

  "Actress Gabourey Sidibe On Anxiety, Phone Sex And Life After 'Precious'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 08, 2017.

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• When you don't know your values or who you are or you start to believe things other people are telling you, you get lost. I was just lost because I didn't know what I meant to music or what music meant to me. Now I just belong solo and I belong by myself.

  Brandy Norwood

  Believe, People, Values

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• What I didn't realize about television was that's true of acting, as well. You have that space of time to develop who you are, and you can use more and more of yourself. The lines between that character that I'm playing and myself become more and more blurred and, after awhile, they just disappear, altogether.

  Scott Glenn

  Character, Acting, Realizing

  Source: collider.com

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• Dude, okay, so you're gay. You may consider that to be different, but you're not different. You have two jobs. You have to go out there and be the best artist that you can be. You've got to go out there and be the best songwriter that you can be. You simply have to be great at what you do and then your dreams will fall into place. Who you are is just a part of that dream, a part of your story.

  Ty Herndon

  Dream, Fall, Gay

  "Hotter Than Ever: An interview with Ty Herndon". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, www.outsmartmagazine.com. November 1, 2016.

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• Be as honest with yourself as possible, and try to make friends with people who like you for you - not an iteration of who you are, or who you think you should be - but really like you for you. And when you're creating whatever you want to do in your life, just try to create and put out the truest version of yourself into the world.

  Hasan Minhaj

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is a ferocity to MMA and to the training, but there's such a humanity to it too. It takes so much sacrifice and humility to get into it and to rise through those levels. If you look at the fights as a means to test who you are, every one of these fights is an opportunity to see how far you're willing to go up against yourself - and to find and define your limits.

  Jonathan Tucker

  Mean, Humility, Fighting

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• The blessing and the curse of not having a huge hit... you can go in and out of roles and some people know who you are and some people don't. I'd love for one of these movies to be super successful because then at least you're presented with more opportunities.

  Patrick Wilson

  Successful, Blessing, Opportunity

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There is God, and it doesn't matter who you are or what you are doing, there is God in this world, and there's a lot of love for everyone, and it doesn't matter where you are from, the important thing for me when I read The Shack script - the thing that Jesus is, he is a friend.

  Aviv Alush

  Jesus, Important, World

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I really think you cannot ever escape your history, what you've done, who you are, and things you've tried to hide. Even if no one ever finds out the secret you're trying to keep, the cost of that keeping has been so great, that it's destroyed you anyway. In all my writing, there are people who desperately wish the past is not what it is.

  Patrick Somerville

  Writing, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have a twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, "Oh, I had a grapefruit this morning and it was delicious," because, who cares? But, I think it can serve as a platform for talking about things that matter to me, like the organizations that I work with. As pretentious as that sounds, it is true. You can really make a difference, if you can create a following and actually represent who you are, as opposed to how people want to portray you. But, I don't know what the balance is.

  Zoey Deutch

  Morning, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• When you become a band and you've got people who want to be a part of your experience or want to get close to you for what you are, not who you are, you have that challenge of trying to find out who's genuine.

  Zac Hanson

  People, Challenges, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Writing style is something is a consequence of who you are. I think that I had a certain propensity for a style that I recognize in my early work, but that doesn't mean I didn't have to learn certain basics and the longer you write the better you get. The rhythms come from you. If the rhythm seem to echo the music, then that's delightful if people see that, but it's certainly not something that's intentional on my part. I'm trying to be as clear and precise as I can be and at the same time, I'm trying to be eloquent and witty and entertaining. I mean, writing should be a pleasure.

  Gary Giddins

  Witty, Writing, Mean

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If someone is trying to stop you from enjoying your life by impeding on yours, and telling you that your life is not the right way, then by all means, I'm the first one to say, "Fight for your rights, fight for who you are and for what you believe in." But you better be the stronger person. Just be aware and attentive to everything that's happening in life and know that there are gonna be people that are going to stop you and going to enjoy stopping you from getting to your goals. But just continue to be strong and outwit them.

  Ryan Guzman

  Strong, Believe, Mean

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Life should be fun, and so should your clothes. It's not about sending a message. It's about feeling good about yourself and being who you are.

  Craig Sager

  Fun, Feel Good, Feelings

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• Punk rock was the first thing I found in my life that made me feel acceptable. The thing that got me into punk rock was the idea, "You're fine just the way you are." It sounds kind of dorky, but you don't have to make excuses for who you are or what you do. When you find something like punk rock, not only is it okay to feel that way - you should embrace your weirdness. The world is totally messed up, and punk rock was a way to see that and work with it without candy-coating it. It was saying, "Yeah, the world is this way, but you can still do something about it. Take energy from that."

  John Porcellino

  Energy, World, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Who you are, what you are, does not change after you occupy the oval office. All it does is magnify who you are. All it does is shine a spotlight on who you are.

  Barack Obama

  Office, Shining

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• You put so much of yourself out there as an actor. You show the many facets of who you are when you're performing - or who you could be - you show yourself angry, upset, sad, vulnerable. The one thing I keep as my own private secret is the music.

  Cameron Monaghan

  Upset, Secret, Vulnerable

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What people don't understand about making a film is sometimes your experience on the film shapes who you are. You're gone to another country for five months, maybe more, there's training leading up to it... It's a whole life experience that people don't see because they just see the final product wrapped up in a couple hours. You don't see everything that happens around it. I think it's hard to say one movie or one thing; I think they all shape who you are.

  Scott Eastwood

  Country, Couple, Thinking

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I feel like an outsider sometimes. Sometimes being more public makes me feel uncomfortable. I'll have people asking me for autographs in Thailand and I'll ask if they've seen my films and they'll say, "No, but I know who you are and I like the way you look - I like the skinhead look."

  Apichatpong Weerasethakul

  People, Outsiders, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Many people want payback and to see others suffer. Forgiveness is the key to freedom. You can choose to be enslaved and burdened or you can choose to be free. It's a choice. Forgiveness is a state of being. So once you do it, it alters who you are and the way you can be in the world.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  People, Choices, Suffering

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I think the best piece of advice that I would give is beauty is really just - I know it sounds cheesy - being true to who you are. Beauty is not something that is acquired necessarily through like makeup or clothing.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Makeup, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think sometimes you get too caught up in the business side, and you make compromises, and then the brand becomes unexciting. I think in the early stages you have to be bold. You have to define yourself. Everyone wants to understand who you are and why you're here. I think the best brands are forever surprising people.

  Reed Krakoff

  Thinking, People, Forever

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Don't let a culture or society's rules define who you are; you define who you are.

  Amma Asante

  Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you spend so much time away from home, travelling around doing things like this, talking about yourself too much, which is often very painful... So, to actually come home and just be amongst people who know you extremely well, who you can't pretend to be anything other than yourself in front of, is a relief really. It gives you a sense of who you are again. You just don't get any time at home... it's such an existence of feeling very unsettled and travelling around. It's great.

  Dominic Cooper

  Home, People, Giving

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Letting your freak flag fly is something, no matter who you are, that takes great bravery, straight up.

  Sarah Silverman

  Bravery, Freak, Straight Up

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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