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Being Myself Quotes

Being myself is what got me to where I am.

– Jeff Hardy

People have always found me challenging – I don’t know why, when I am only being myself. I don’t understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is.

– Ian Hamilton Finlay

I’m quite happy being myself. I’m a big fan of Jessica Lange and Jeanne Moreau, but I don’t want to be anyone else.

– Jacqueline Bisset

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

– Angelina Jolie

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

– Bea Arthur

I’ll never be Jennifer Lawrence or Tom Cruise, someone who can hold a movie and then be charming and charismatic doing promotion. I haven’t got what they’ve got. But at least I’m now comfortable just being myself.

– Aaron Taylor-Johnson

I like being myself. Maybe just slimmer, with a few less wrinkles.

– Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I feel more and more like ‘myself’ these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself.

– B. D. Wong

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

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

I really enjoy singing, it’s entirely different to acting because I’m just being myself.

– Michelle Dockery

As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn’t really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn’t have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.

– David Bowie

Just going along with this, what I did, or what I do is I imagine not being myself seeing it, but imagine somebody else who’s seeing it for the first time.

– Dennis Muren

I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn’t working. I wasn’t being myself. What I should have done was say. ‘Girls, it’s really time for me to go on my own. I need to fulfill this dream of mine to have a solo album.’ And I didn’t know how to do that. I wanted to please them.

– Fergie

Me just being myself in public or on TV is the biggest nightmare in the world.

– Jennifer Saunders

I don’t follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, ‘Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.’ I just like being myself.

– Maria Sharapova

I felt like I got more comfortable on ‘Idol’ when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be.

– Kara DioGuardi

I felt more comfortable playing other people than being myself, when I was a kid. And then, the tables turned. Through my performances, I’ve become more comfortable with who I am, and then I just bring more of myself into the people that I play.

– Jay Ryan

I didn’t start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

– Rob McClure

I’ve always prided myself on being myself and trying to stick true to who I am and how I was raised.

– Patrick Kane

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

– Rebecca Loos

My tutorial videos are educational, but they’re goofy – I’m just being myself.

– Rosanna Pansino

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

– Rex Stout

I try to associate myself as just being myself – and being a person, an American citizen, going out there every day and just trying to be successful.

– Robert Griffin III

The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.

– Riz Ahmed

I was both loved and hated for being upfront. But I was just being myself.

– Sunny Deol

When I’m trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.

– Shakti Gawain

If I were really being myself. I’d just curl up in the corner and knit.

– Shamir