Quotes About Self-discovery

Earlier I used to be a shy girl.

In the very early days of Wham! the attention felt great, but I do wonder how much freedom I gave away by trying to become something I wasn't.

To some degree, I think playing yourself has to be earned.

It just gets easier in that you become more you in the process.

Every player has to figure out what works best for them. So yes, I like the way I work, and if that gives me a competitive edge, that's great and if it doesn't that's okay too.

Going to Edinburgh when I was at university and seeing people who were my age just getting up and doing what they wanted to do, was quite a clincher for me.

I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.

I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.

I'm kind of like Will Ferrell in the movie 'Elf.'

I want people to not be embarrassed going through breakups and divorces, to know what to do before they get involved in a relationship.

We all wish we could find and embrace our voice, our strength.

In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one emerge.

I feel like I learned that I am so much stronger than I ever thought I was, not just emotionally, but physically.

I've learned it as I've gotten older, but just really enjoy your own company. Especially as a woman, that's something that's really empowering and powerful to learn. Feel comfortable with yourself.

When you really understand who you are, it enables you to fight and believe.

I never help my kids and I never encourage them and I never give them any advice.

I met my share of boys but the end result was always the same - they weren't the right kind of men for me.

I may not have written the stories that I've written if I hadn't ended up in Niverville. I don't know; I don't know. How can you know?

I was made more 'aware of myself,' from the outside in, when I got engaged.

I went to Carnegie Mellon and was an electrical engineer, but electrical engineering wasn't right for me.

I think just because you're a mom, it doesn't negate - if anything, you're probably more enhanced - that you're a woman trying to find your place in the world.

I don't know what it is that I'm doing, but I'm really enjoying myself. And I'm free to do it as much as I want.

We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.

Becoming a drag entertainer and really embracing that helped me to embrace who I was as a gay person even more.