Top 100 Be Myself Quotes
#1. Sometimes when I go out on the road, I feel almost embarrassed or dismayed because I can't be the image of what kids want me to be. So I just try to be myself, and usually that works out OK.
Mary Pope Osborne
#2. I like to be myself, and I don't pretend. For instance, I don't dress up for occasions; I am what I am.
Virat Kohli
#3. Maybe I got sick of accusations, sick of being Polonius's daughter, and Laertes's sister, and Hamlet's girlfriend. Maybe I wanted, for a short while, simply to be myself.
Lisa Mantchev
#4. My ideal trident would be myself alongside Rooney and Messi. They are the players who make me dream - not Cristiano.
Carlos Tevez
#5. I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and writers - must learn to be themselves. It takes a very long time.
Margot Fonteyn
#6. I just have to be myself, and not worry about everyone looking at me and watching.
Frank Thomas
#7. I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else.
Julie Andrews
#8. For once in my life, I'd love to be myself around everyone else and be accepted for who I am instead of staying silent for fear of people mocking me.
Katie McGarry
#9. Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don't agree but I can learn something.
Maya Angelou
#10. I just try to be myself and not conform to something I'm not and just continue doing what I do. I just try not to think about the fact that I'm an inspiration for people.
Bethany Hamilton
#11. My parents always told me to be myself. I was always funny and silly as a kid. And I would always make them laugh. And they always told me to dream big and follow those dreams.
Richard Simmons
#12. As long as I've got a book, it doesn't matter where I am. I can instantly be a million miles away, in a completely different place, on a different planet even. I can be someone else, you know? When it gets too complicated to be myself.
Suzanne Brockmann
#13. I do not laugh; I do not cry;
I'm sweating out the will to die.
My past is sliding down the drain;
I soon will be myself again.
Theodore Roethke
#14. I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.
Andrew Solomon
#15. When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!
E. M. Forster
#16. Just keep asking questions. Does this job allow me to be myself? Does it make me smarter? Does it open doors? Does it represent a compromise I accept? Does it touch my inner being?
Suzy Welch
#17. In leaving Hollywood and coming to New York, I feel I can be more myself. After all, if I can't be myself, what's the good of being anything at all?
Marilyn Monroe
#18. I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#19. I really liked drama and being in plays, so when I was playing a character onstage and I could act like somebody else, then I wasn't scared or nervous, but I didn't like meeting new people when I had to be myself. That was scary.
Meg Cabot
#20. I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.
Robyn
#22. I don't want to be myself, ever. I'm terrible at a snapshot. Terrible. I blink all the time. I've got facial Tourette's. Unless I'm working and in that zone, I'm not very good at pictures, really,
Kate Moss
#23. There was no guarantee of victory if I remained the same or just tried to be myself, but there was certain defeat in pretending to be something I was not.
J.W. Lord
#25. I hear stories. It could be myself telling them to myself or it could be these murmurs that come out of the earth. The earth so old and haunted, so hungry and replete. It talks. Things past and things yet to be.
Edna O'Brien
#26. My main focus is to always try to be myself first, and then, hey, if I wear a cool jacket, that's a bonus.
John Krasinski
#27. My heroine would be myself, only in disguise.
Sylvia Plath
#28. I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I'd get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.
Beyonce Knowles
#29. Well, you know what? If that guy can do it, I can be myself too, and if that rapper can be himself and be free and be happy and still hold masculinity and love people and love flowers and just be happy being alive, well then, I can do that too.
Lil B
#30. I enjoy meeting new people and feeling free to be myself for five seconds every single time. After that, they're not new anymore.
Robin Sacredfire
#31. I always try to be true to who I am and just be myself.
Sam Claflin
#32. When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize, 'All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago,' it feels good to have success come from what's actually inside of you.
Jessica Simpson
#33. Maris squeezed her lightly. "It's all right, though. Really. While the rest of my family refuses to speak my name, I have the best brother anyone could ever ask for. One who isn't afraid to let me be myself. One who wouldn't hesitate to die for me. In the end, I'm the luckiest bitch in the universe.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#34. People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.
Magic Johnson
#35. I just wanna be myself, and I want you to love me for who I am
Lady Gaga
#36. I want to be myself. That's when you feel the most comfortable, that's when you have the most success, and that's when you're the most happy.
Leighton Meester
#37. Feeling at home is the feeling that I can just be myself. It
Ethan Nichtern
#38. When you left, I somehow couldn't be myself,
Paulo Coelho
#39. Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?
Michael Moorcock
#40. Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no-just let me be myself-and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.
Vincent Van Gogh
#41. I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to compromise? I never understood that. I decided to try to be myself and to live by my own values rather than those of others.
Novala Takemoto
#42. Funny how when I was in this room, I breathed easier. When I saw her, the muscles in my shoulders loosened. I could just ... be myself.
Jenny B. Jones
#43. When I was younger, I was afraid to be myself.
Lee DeWyze
#44. I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.
Suzanne Farrell
#45. Time will pass; these mood will pass; and I will, eventually, be myself again. But then, at some unknown time, the electrifying carnival will come back into my mind.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#46. That something that I fought so hard for throughout the beginning of my career is I didn't want to pancake my skin a lighter color to fit into the ... ballet. I wanted to be myself. I didn't want to have to wear makeup that made my nose look thinner.
Misty Copeland
#47. If I'm compared to Babe Ruth or Willie Mays, that's great. But I'm just going to go out there and be myself.
Ken Griffey Jr.
#48. I just want to continue to play football and be myself.
Victor Cruz
#49. I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner.
Kate Winslet
#50. Sort of what you do in drama school when asked to play something way out of your reach. Anyway, we used to laugh a lot about that. I used to say I'm not going to act old, Penelope. I'll just be myself.
Maggie Smith
#51. I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself around that person. Your true, true innermost authentic self, the stuff you don't let anyone else see, if you can be that way with that person, I think that that's real love.
Idina Menzel
#52. Number four - world domination. Number five - always be myself. Number six - get a haircut. Number seven - convince Kenzie to fall in love with me, get married, and buy a minivan." He rolled his eyes so far back it's a wonder he didn't lose them in his skull.
"Now who is being sarcastic?
Erin Lynn
#53. She didn't have to be offered anything; it was already hers. She was more herself than anyone else ever was and as soon as I clapped eyes on her I knew I wanted to be myself just as much as she was herself.
Melvin Burgess
#54. You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'
Mariah Carey
#55. Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.
Terry McMillan
#56. I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.
Thomas Bernhard
#57. For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.
Thomas Merton
#58. I can only be myself, I'm sorry that's hell for you.
Ashlee Simpson
#59. I would like to be myself in life - my real self. My ego, though, is powerful and not necessarily working in my best interest all the time. Even when climbing I can't escape the clutches of my ego. The reason why I started climbing was because I could be free from myself.
Chris Sharma
#60. I don't have to hide or be somebody I'm not. I don't have to compromise. I can just be myself.
Cory Monteith
#61. I never thought I'd be a role model at this age. I just have to be myself.
Mo'ne Davis
#62. It was only until I started to be myself that the music started to flow & people started to listen so thank you.
Sam Smith
#63. I'm just going to be the best version of me that I could possibly be and be as funny as I possibly can. I've just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me.
Aisha Tyler
#65. Never did I think so much, exist so much, be myself so much as in the journeys I have made alone and on foot. Walking has something about it which animates and enlivens my ideas. I can hardly think while I am still; my body must be in motion to move my mind.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#66. Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.
Hailee Steinfeld
#68. But I've discovered being a writer is an ongoing apprenticeship, just like everything else in life that matters to me-being a mother, a wife, a daughter, or simply a woman alive in the world, content to be myself. Today at thirty-two, I am glad to wake up each day and begin.
Sue Monk Kidd
#69. I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!
James Taylor
#70. I want to say to her: i just want to be myself. and i want to be with someone who's just himself. that's all. i want to see through all the performance and all the pretending and get right to the truth.
David Levithan
#71. It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.
Lupita Nyong'o
#72. I've been lucky - all the ads I've got, I've got to be myself. I haven't had to act too much or tried too hard to be someone I'm not. I think that's why people sort of like them. Even the Fastrack ads I did with Genelia.
Virat Kohli
#73. I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don't do anything that outlandish anyway.
Julia Stiles
#74. I won't try to be anybody else. I just try to be myself.
Greyson Chance
#75. Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.
Samuel Beckett
#76. I remember my manager telling me, 'Be myself, be humble, keep rooted, keep God first'. Those words were very helpful.
John Boyega
#77. I did a show with Tori Kelly, and it was really cool that I got to meet her. She has always been a huge inspiration of mine, and I'm obsessed with her voice, so it was great to get to talk to her about the industry. The best advice she gave me was to just be myself.
Daya
#78. As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.
Taiye Selasi
#79. I know what I want, I have a goal, I have opinions, a religion and love. If only I can be myself, I'll be satisfied.
Anne Frank
#80. I'm not trying to be something that I'm not. I'm just trying to be myself and talk about what I know, and admit what I don't know.
Anderson Cooper
#81. I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.
Aldous Huxley
#82. I'll never forget one time a fan came up to me crying, and told me, 'You really inspire me to be me. I feel OK to be myself now.'
Becky G
#83. I hope to always be myself, except more mature and knowing more.
David Archuleta
#86. The biggest klutz would be myself, so if I could offer help to myself I would. I'm the most off my game most often.
Bridgit Mendler
#87. I've never felt just like me, just like Alison. I can't be myself in this family because it's more important that I be ... this person who's not ... Adam. Who's normal. Smart. Good. Who's not ... Autistic.
Nancy Werlin
#88. What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves.
Oprah Winfrey
#89. I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.
Elton John
#90. Lamar is just Lamar. My teammates probably can explain that a little better than I can. If I just go out there and do what I do and be myself, it shouldn't be a problem.
Lamar Odom
#91. With everything I do, I just try to be myself.
Kevin Durant
#92. Life was so easy before I became an actor. I could talk to anyone, and no one bothered. I keep thinking to myself, 'Should I not be myself,' but I won't do that.
Anushka Sharma
#93. I just really wanted to be myself. I wanted to be sassy, the attitude, all these things that I am.
Rihanna
#94. For me, personality acting is not that interesting. I don't want to just be myself.
Lesley Manville
#95. As a child, at the age when others promise to be Chateaubriand or nothing, I had written that I would be myself or nothing. I had certainly not foreseen that one day I would find myself in the position of being both myself and nothing. 65
Marcel Benabou
#96. While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.
Dana Carvey
#97. What an effort I make to be myself. I struggle against a tide in a boat with just enough room for my two feet in a perilous and fragile balance.
Clarice Lispector
#98. I just saw dialogue, in the audition, and had no backstory. I was like, "I'm just going to be myself because I have no idea who this is or where he's coming from." The typical questions that actors have to ask themselves were very hard. I had to imagine, a little bit, and just made it work.
Giles Matthey
#99. I crave time in all its duration, and I
want to be myself unconditionally.
Fernando Pessoa
#100. To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone.
Pat Schneider
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