Quotes About Self-discovery

I just want to show people that the best thing you could ever do for yourself is be yourself.

Nobody told me that you needed to learn to be alone to enjoy to love your own company - to find peace and to be yourself.

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

When you're playing someone else, it sounds so negative to say you want to erase yourself, but part of the joy of it is you get to not be yourself.

Be yourself. And every person is unique.

The thing that you have to do is... try to be yourself.

I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week. So I really couldn't see myself being anything else.

It's a beautiful thing at 60 to know who you are.

There's so much to becoming a woman.

What we're always looking for in students is who they are, and I think that's something that happens on the 'Sewing Bee.'

When I'm writing well, I feel happy. And when I go too long without writing, I begin to implode.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

Talking about your work all the time and to open up, you have to do all that. I have begun to find my fun in that as well.

I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

I do say all I've ever written about is being alone. And most people take that as, 'Oh, that's so sad.' And I always say, 'No. No, all I ever write about is being alone, and sometimes that's a beautiful, beautiful thing.'

For me, it's always been draining to be around people for too long because I'm naturally a pretty expressionless person. From an early age, I found being alone incredibly liberating.

I love being alone.

I wasn't perfect and didn't have it together. I felt alone. So through acting, I decided to be a shape shifter and with every role become the character instead of being myself. It meant about 10 years of no one knowing I was the same person in every movie.

I'm learning to stop being scared.

Don't try to be like me. Try to be like yourself. Try to be very good at being yourself.

Swavey is the movement. Three words... It's Unique, it's true, and it's yourself. It's a very unique thing: it's true to yourself, and it's all about you just being yourself.

It's like, you can know you want to live your life by being yourself, but how do you actually do that? That can be a whole lifelong journey.

I believed early and still believe that everybody who can act can do it already, just they don't know how and don't want to talk about it.

I don't really feel like I belong anywhere.