Quotes About Self-discovery

I'm trying to create a presence that resonates for myself and the core of Eric Brady.

You have been called to be who you are - the whole luminous light. No one can dim your light when you are fully present to the depth and breadth of it.

I never want kids to walk away after a school presentation and say, 'I met a writer today.' I want them to say, 'I am a writer.'

I was never a boy. I always was a girl in my heart, and although I was presented as a boy to the public, inside I was feminine. It was OK to be that because that's just who I was, and I can't change that. I was born that way.

The biggest thing that I hope people take away when they listen to my music is that they feel that there is an outlet being presented that allows them to be more authentic and for them to be more honest in their own lives.

Women are tired of 'presenting' themselves; we just want to be who we are.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Pressure can be good. It helps you to see what you're all about.

I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.

Pretending to be other people helped bring me out of my shell and shed my inhibitions.

When you're pretending to be something you're not, at least for me, you end up falling on your face.

I think of L.A. as my home now, in large part because I became the entity that I am in L.A. I always say to people that my coming-of-age happened in L.A., the unraveling of the person I was pretending to be for a long time, and then finding of the person I feel like I now am.

I have a pretty good grip on who I am.

I'm not a professional dancer.

What made my mind go free is that I wanted to become an artist. As soon as I said to myself, 'Oh I'm not a dancer; I'm not an actor,' it made me so free to do anything.

I'm not a dancer at all.

I'm not a dancer. Never took a dance class.

I hope, then, that every one who sees 'The Danish Girl' might be galvanized themselves to lead more authentic lives. How much lovelier would the world be then?

For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

Christine was me wanting to break free. I was tired of being prissy and shrinking and apologising all of the time, so I created a character that could be daring for me.

I've got a lot of darkness in me.

I just don't know how to date.

I certainly didn't want to date. I was through with guys.