Top 100 To Be Me Quotes
#1. I didn't ask to be Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke asked to be me.
Thom Yorke
#2. All you need to know is that I have an old enemy pretending to be me. (Acheron)
Why? (Talon)
Well, it obviously isn't to be nice to me and win over my friends, now is it? (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#3. If anyone was to perform the classic folly of taking a midnight stroll among the murderous gentlemen with whom the hotel was probably packed, it was not going to be me.
Mary Stewart
#4. Nonetheless, I know where I'm coming from,
I've got an idea on where I'm going,
And with the way things are going,
I'm just glad to be me.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#5. In this moment, looking into his eyes while he doing these things to me, I feel overwhelmed, scared it'll all be taken away, but most of all the beginning of what I think is freedom. Free to be me. Free to feel human and not my parents puppet.
N.E. Henderson
#6. Sweetie, you better believe if I have to run, it's going to be me chasing after you.
C.L.Stone
#7. The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.
Liz Murray
#8. The only one that can do what I do is me. Lot of people had to die for me to be me. You wanna be me?
Frank Costello
#9. I don't set out to be different, I set out to be me, people think it's different.
Lil' Wayne
#10. Ready or not, I peer into your soul and dive deep... Your eyes don't like what I see. You don't want to be me. So you curse and smash the mirror which gets you what? A bit of blood , a handful of glass splinters, another source of pain.
Nikki Grimes
#11. I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be.
Steven Biko
#12. Okay, you can stay at home and Spotify, or YouTube, or you can get off your ass and come listen to what real musicians making real music sound like. And, hey, it doesn't have to be me, but if I'm in town, then yeah, you should definitely check me out.
Nicholas Payton
#13. I had one guy pretend to be me, go to a hotel room, and tell the people at the front desk that it was me, and then he went in and stole all of our luggage. There's always that eager beaver that wants to be a part of the team and comes off as a sticky fly.
Les Claypool
#14. I look at my sons' little faces, and I want to be their superhero. I don't want them to have to look outside to a third party for a hero, for someone to look up to and admire. I want that to be ME. I want that person to be MOMMY for them.
Lashinda Demus
#15. Reading what people say makes me want to be me even more.
Brittney Griner
#16. Sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .
Maggie Stiefvater
#19. The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me.
Jeff Lindsay
#20. I know Busta Rhymes for about a year now and we did a song together and we got an album together which is called "Godzilla vs. King Kong", which is going to be me and Busta. That was really the first time we rocked together on stage.
Bone Crusher
#21. I needed to know what thread to pull. I needed to be the one who knew the right direction. She couldn't see her way clear of where she was right now, so it had to be me.
Kami Garcia
#23. It's easier to be me than someone else. But just like most famous people, I just want to be left alone most of the time.
Bob Dylan
#24. 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
#25. You get older and you are a whole mess of things, new thoughts, sorry feelings, big plans, enormous doubts, goling along hoping and getting disappointed, over and over again, no wonder I don't recognize my little crayon picture. It appears to be me and it is and it is not.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#26. Sometimes, in my world where parents hated one another and school was a battleground, it sucked to be me.
Jennifer Brown
#27. I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.
Eddie Marsan
#28. I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.
Dax Shepard
#29. Someone's got to say these things, it has to be me!
Bob Grant
#30. I just want to be me - I just want to be useful and ... content. I want to stop
wondering if I'll ever feel whole and just be whole. I want to have a purpose one that I can look at without feeling like I'm less than I was.
Eilis O'Neal
#31. Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
Kate Winslet
#33. Another blond boy came tearing from the opposite direction. "Can't find Smith. But I see you found my cupcake."
"Mine," Cole snapped. Uh, was the cupcake supposed to be me? Because it was a weird nickname for a supposed enemy.
Gena Showalter
#35. I don't think we've been introduced," I said. "My name's Zara. I'm strong, I'm fast, and I totally kick ass. It's great to be me ... but that means right now it sucks to be you.
Skyla Dawn Cameron
#36. I was even a little glad that if it wasn't going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her.
Cassandra Clare
#37. I am not on tumblr. I can barely spell tumblr. However, there does seem to be someone on tumblr (who copied my reddit user name) who is apparently trying to impersonate me. I like the idea that people are pretending to be me. I spend most of my time pretending not to be me.
Misha Collins
#38. How do you know? You've done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?" How could someone like him have the slightest clue what it felt like to be me? I felt almost cross with him for willfully not getting it. "Go on. Open
Jojo Moyes
#39. When we blaze, when we fight, when we rejoice, then I am all us, for that is all we are. When I am ... afraid ... we do not understand, do not like these things. We are me. It is ... frightening, having to be me.
Kate Griffin
#40. That Jem makes beautiful things and I destroy them. That it really ought to be me dying and not him. I mean, what's the point of living if you can't even enjoy it? Yet Jem enjoys all the life he's got. It's not fair.
Cassandra Clare
#41. As we settle together, spiraling down from bliss, I land in a space of clarity. I stop worrying if it's going to be Alayna that falls apart from this affair and start accepting that it's going to be me.
Laurelin Paige
#42. I am me because I choose to be me. I am what I want. Some people say you have to find yourself. Not I. I believe we create ourselves to be what we want.
Tricia Levenseller
#43. I myself am still learning how to be me and that's OK. It can take a really long time to become the person you really want to be. Be who you are. It's the greatest gift we can give to ourselves, our community and our world.
Maria Shriver
#44. I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.
Anne Lamott
#45. I would wish it on no one to be me.
Only I am capable of being myself.
To know so much, to have seen so much, and
To say nothing, just about nothing.
Robert Walser
#46. I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.
Malachy McCourt
#47. There's no such thing as a limit on being the best. You can always go for more. That's what it means to be human. No... That's what it means to be me. - Claire Stanfield
Ryohgo Narita
#48. It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.
Sarah Dessen
#49. I grew to see my affliction as my gift. When I sang, I soared. I could soar higher than all those hurts aimed at my heart. All I needed was the courage to be me.
Jimmy Scott
#50. The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.
Haruki Murakami
#52. Some time later there was a song on all the jukeboxes on the Upper East Side that went "but where is the school-girl who used to be me," and if it was late enough at night I used to wonder that.
Joan Didion
#55. But at least try to look a little more raider-ish, okay? We don't want to attract attention."
Zeke's snort sounded suspiciously like laughter. "Allie, you're a beautiful, exotic-looking vampire girl with a katana. Trust me, if anyone is going to attract attention, it's not going to be me.
Julie Kagawa
#56. It eventually appeared to be me, cinematically. When I was writing it I was actually an author, you know, writing a book ... But there certainly is a difference in energy between a younger man and an older man.
Steve Martin
#57. I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.
Young Jeezy
#58. I don't want to always be 'the best I can be.' I just want to be me.
Simone Elkeles
#59. So this was what it was like not to be me.
Miranda July
#60. I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me.
Greg Egan
#61. With that kiss, I tried to tell him the enormity of what he meant to me. I tried to show him that he was the answer to a question I hadn't even known I had been asking. I tried to thank him for wanting me to be me, more than he wanted to make me stay.
Jojo Moyes
#62. It's very expensive to be me. It's terrible the things I have to do to be me.
Anna Nicole Smith
#63. I feel artificially myself. I'm someone who's supposed to be me.
Don DeLillo
#64. I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.
John Legend
#65. What I didn't realize was that I didn't have to be normal--I just had to be me, my father's child, carrying out God's plan.
Nick Vujicic
#66. The social web can't exist until you are your real self online. I have to be me. You have to be you. Once we are online as ourselves, connected to each other and our other friends, then you can have the evolution of what becomes the social web.
Sheryl Sandberg
#67. I won't work with people who won't give me the freedom to be me.
Jeremy Scott
#68. I don't have to edit myself. I get to be me, warts and all, and that's ultimately what people want, and to trust each other implicitly.
Greg Behrendt
#69. I want to continue to be me and share with people.
J. R. Martinez
#70. Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.
Meryl Streep
#71. Because it was the first time in my life that I gave myself permission to be me. I was still shy and self-conscious and terrified of people, but Jenkins had essentially freed me of the bonds of having to try to fit in.
Jenny Lawson
#72. Take a second look, you might find that I am stronger. Take a second look, you might find that you are stronger. Imagination, inspiration. It's only fair that I tell you, I plan on leaving here tonight with my pride. I'm proud to be I'm proud to be me.
Sara Quin
#73. Linden is my thoughts, my air, my earth. Linden is starting to become more than everything to me. I might be going a little bit crazy but I'm pretty sure that's what someone might call falling in love. A fall into madness. Splat. That's going to be me.
Karina Halle
#74. My right to be me is tied with a thousand threads to your right to be you.
Leslie Feinberg
#75. What is important to me as an actor is that, even if I have to spread my arms, take my shirt off on a mountain top with my heroine in a chiffon sari, it still has to be me and my twist or my funny take on it.
Vir Das
#76. Because it requires the total surrender of my will and finally, ultimately, the wholesale destruction of my ego. That is hard. It I'm going to another world, I cry out, I want to be ME in it.
Valerie Martin
#77. Have recovered somewhat from massive, delicious, inundating influx of life memories. Man, it is soooooooooo goooooooooood to be ME again.
Rob Reger
#78. I'm part Chinese, part Hawaiian, part Filipino, and part nigger. You'd hate to be me
Raymond Chandler
#79. Some reviewers have read this as cynicism but I don't see it that way. When I say "I am so sick / of pretending to be me," it's exhaustion at the everyday performance, in life, in art, even in our most intimate encounters.
Randall Mann
#81. The question I love to get asked is: 'What's the hardest part of your job?' And literally, the answer is probably real sad, but it's to just to be me. Like, it's really hard, because I think people, you know, have a set idea of what a pop star should be.
Kelly Clarkson
#82. When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
P. J. O'Rourke
#83. Any game plan? Xypher asked Sin.
Don't die.
I like it. Simple, bold. Impossible. Works for me.
Kat scoffed at his sarcasm. What are you bitching about, Xypher? You're already dead.
He laughed. You know, for once, it's good to be me.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#85. One time I considered making a video game about my life where people control a character called 'Zach Braff' and run around being awesome. Then I realized that getting to pretend to be me would be like shooting up heroin for anyone who played it, and I don't want that on my conscience.
Zach Braff
#86. This isn't how things were supposed to happen. I was supposed to be me.
Not this.
Aaron Dries
#87. Look, when I'm here, I don't have to think. I don't have to worry. I don't even have to be me if I don't want to. That came out wrong. I don't have to be the me I have to be all day.
Sophie Oak
#89. If something gets too easy ... I want to do something else. But every album is going to be me, no matter what.
Skrillex
#90. If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.
Gerard Way
#91. This is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing.
Maya Angelou
#92. I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.
Laura Marling
#93. I want to be me, and yet I'm not sure who I am.
Suzanne Young
#94. I've got a Facebook page, but I've never put anything on it. I've got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I've never once sent a message. I'm there because, otherwise, someone's going to pretend to be me.
Robert Smith
#95. [My work is] maybe about me maybe not wanting to be me and wanting to be all these other characters. Or at least try them on.
Cindy Sherman
#96. I don't know how to be me and how to be sexual at the same time.
Lacey Alexander
#97. I chose the light amidst the lurking darkness. I chose calmness and stillness among a crowd bathing in chaos. I chose happiness over screaming negativity around and I chose to be ME over the temptation of being like somebody else.
Elizabeth E. Castillo
#98. I looked in the mirror once more. The new clothes felt like salt on the raw wounds, but they covered the worst of it, and I looked less alarming, less confronting, less hideous. I smiled at the mirror. I was practising, trying to remember what it was like to be me.
Gregory David Roberts
#99. I find out a lot about myself by sleeping. Dreams, they are who I am when I'm too tired to be me.
Jarod Kintz
#100. Only one in four has a chance at making it ... And right there, I knew that if one of us was getting off dope, and staying off dope, it was going to be me. I was going to live. I was the guy.
Anthony Bourdain
