Being Myself Quotes - Page 3

• I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself.

  Rebecca Loos

  Giving, Perfect, Trying

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• I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.

  Bea Arthur

  Roles, Hell

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• I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

  Rex Stout

  Busy, Bother, Has Beens

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  Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

  Lucille Ball

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

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• Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

  Shakti Gawain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Living in the Light, 25th Anniversary Edition: Follow Your Inner Guidance to Create a New Life and a New World”, p.59, New World Library

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• I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

  Vivian Stanshall

  Thinking, Being Different, Sake

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• I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, People, Strange

  "Ellen DeGeneres Shows Us How To Live Our Own Truth" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 28, 2016.

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• I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Beauty, Work, Smart

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

  Judy Garland

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Business Etiquette for the Nineties: Your Ticket to Career Success". Book by Lou Kennedy, 1992.

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• Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things? Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn, unageing, und.

  Gautama Buddha

  Sorrow, Age, Disease

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• It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

  Andre Gide

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Life, Beautiful, Being Yourself

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Inspiring, Being Yourself, Inspiration

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.486

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• I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

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• I never went wrong by being myself.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Kerry Diamond, Kevyn Aucoin (2004). “Kevyn Aucoin a Beautiful Life: The Success, Struggles, and Beauty Secrets of a Legendary Makeup Artist”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• I always wore sneakers when I wanted to. It was always about being comfortable and being myself.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Sneakers, Wanted, Comfortable

  "Whoopi Goldberg Tells Katie Couric, "Life's Too Short to Be Anything but Chill"". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. April 6, 2010.

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• Simply being myself makes me feel vulnerable.

  Nathan Parsons

  Vulnerable, Feels

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I wouldn't call myself an actor or a singer for that matter, just a journeyman. [...] I feel I must have a talent somewhere for doing something but I'm still not terribly sure what it is. I suppose it's a talent for being myself.

  Ronnie Drew

  Actors, Singers, Matter

  Ronnie Drew (2009). “Ronnie”, p.196, Penguin UK

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• I want to be remembered as a person who kept it real, who did what he wanted to do, but never did nothing stupid and never tried to offend nobody else. I'm always being myself.

  Edgerrin James

  Real, Stupid, Want

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• How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

  Virginia Woolf

  Coffee, Sea, Knives

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.253, Collector's Library

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• I think there's an initial shedding of the skin of a character when you've played them for so long, almost like a snake losing its skin. But when a job is done, I kind of walk away from it because I know that I need to prep for whatever else I'm going onto - I need to get back to being myself, which... Who knows exactly who that is, with all the talking voices in my head. You know, back to being a bit of a blank slate again. It becomes a necessity as an actor - at least for the way that I act.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Character, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Who knows, maybe I'm just a stubborn jerk? Maybe the other people who do stuff they don't want to do, maybe they're doing the right thing. Who am I to say? I'm just doing my thing and being myself, and I've been given the incredible, fortunate opportunity to play roles that I frickin' care about and enjoy playing. And it might not last forever. That's okay. That's what it is.

  Ellen Page

  Opportunity, People, Forever

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.

  Nicki Minaj

  Rapper, People, Touching

  Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2010.

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• I have nothing to hide. I enjoy being myself. I'm not going to change who I am just because it's Halloween.

  Barack Obama

  Halloween, Who I Am, Enjoy

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. May 1, 2011.

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• Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.

  John Henry Newman

  Self, Two, Creator

  'Apologia pro Vita Sua' (1864) 'History of My Religious Opinions to the Year 1833'

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