Quotes About Self-acceptance

In a way, the most political thing you can do is be yourself.

It's very, very important to be yourself, and that's the kind of message that I want to get across in my character as well. On TV, that's the message that I want to get across to fans of all ages, really: To get somewhere, you just have to be yourself. Don't ever change for anyone.

I know intimately the struggle of trying to live your life and be yourself while feeling the pressure of an entire community on your shoulders.

Be yourself. Be confident.

Anybody is a beach body is what I love to say.

It is beautiful to be what you are.

If you're not a beautiful person, you can't do anything about it.

I will say I would much rather play someone who isn't the most spellbinding beautiful person because I am not that person and I don't want to worry about my angles or how good I look on that day.

I learned to laugh at myself a little more, and I realized that beautiful things can be made out of mistakes.

We don't need to be categorized - we are all individual and beautifully unique.

You can't apologize for who you are on a stage, you can reveal who you are but don't apologize because that's begging the audience to turn on you.

You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.

It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.

Adele is great because she promotes the idea of being happy as you are.

Those who fat shame, I want to tell them being happy has nothing to do with body weight but how one leads his or her life.

There's nothing wrong with being honest about what you are.

I agree that I am different from others. I am not trying to fit in someone else's shoes. I am being honest to myself.

Me being myself, I'm not happy when I'm not playing.

I'm not nervous being in front of people, it's being myself in front of people that I hate.

There's nothing wrong with being pretty.

Being born gay, black, and female is not a revolutionary act. Being proud to be a gay black female is.

I feel that being comfortable - being yourself - when you walk into an audition room is a really important thing. I think being able to own every aspect of your life is only going to make you be more comfortable in front of a table of people you don't know.

I love being a comfortable person, but I'm very open. I'm not ashamed of myself and my beliefs.

I have a beer belly.