Quotes About Self-discovery

In secondary school, I became aware of the idea of being cool, and that was a bit of a shell shock.

For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.

I want to show people that I'm not what everybody thought I was.

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.

You can't become what you aren't, or you will start feeling awful about yourself.

I want to be more myself. Sometimes it takes awhile to find your voice.

I definitely felt awkward and I didn't fit in. Other than that, I'm learning that everyone felt that way: even the popular girls.

When I was 12, I was going through an awkward time. Writing music helped me find my voice and express the things I was feeling.

I came into 'The Bachelor' not ready to be me, and I ended up embracing me.

All that we are not stares back at what we are.

There've been times I felt like, 'I don't know if I want to do this.' That maybe I should go back to school and become a special-education teacher. But I love entertaining.

I'm a little bit backward. I didn't really go to school.

I've been wearing makeup for as long as I can remember. I started by playing with my mom's lipsticks, then in ballet I would apply my own stage makeup.

People had lost faith in me in Baltimore, and rightfully so. I knew that was not the guy I was.

At 26, I barely knew who I was.

Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.

I was told I'd never work again, but once you come out, it's like someone turns on the lights, and your life will be different.

It's like you're waiting on the world to change, but I'm actually living it, because I wonder: If there was a DragCon when I was a child or even a search engine or 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' maybe my father would have been different. Maybe our relationship now wouldn't be different.

I've learnt to be happy by myself.

I just look to be myself. I'm not trying to be nobody. I'm just trying to be the first Zion.

I finally at some point in high school just decided that's what I was going to do. I was going to be true to myself.

You have to be yourself.

All I believe in is, you need to be yourself.

Be yourself. It's really important not to try and be someone else.