Quotes About Self

I only know one way to sing, and thats me. I cant morph who I am as an artist into two different fields; I can just be who I am at all times.

I'm always fighter. I'm always fighter first. I voice that opinion, which sometimes gets me in trouble, but as long as you're true to yourself, you're going to be all right.

I have never been able, really, to figure out where my life begins and where it ends. I have never, never been able to figure it all out, what it's all about, what it all means.

I put way too much pressure on myself and put too much into CrossFit. It had become who I was. That's really when I figured out I don't want my identity to be CrossFit.

I think the beauty of growing up is not really knowing and figuring it out for yourself.

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

It's nice that I can do what I want with my hair when I'm not filming.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

I think it's really finding that belief in yourself, where you just have it no matter what's going on, no matter what anyone else says. I think that's the challenge, is to really have that belief in yourself.

No one finds me as funny as I find myself!

I'm so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.

A person is not the same in his life at all times. Your consciousness is developing all the time. When I started making 'El Topo,' I was one person. When I finished that picture, I was another person.

I've always been called 'Suki,' but my actual first name is Alice.

My first name during my first match was 'Lena.' I was still Lena then, just because we hadn't gotten a name yet.

First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.

All these expectations on me exist because of me in the first place.

I loved the Brazilian music I played. But this is finally me. For the first time I think it's really me.

I'm such a first-person writer.

I'm a fiscal conservative. That's how I define myself.

Where I fit in is confusing to me.

I just started working out and concentrated on my fitness. I did not change my face, I am the same.

Exploring my racial identity, my blackness and my whiteness as living, breathing, moving parts; confronting race as an issue head-on, learning about it, talking about it, celebrating the beauty of my cultures, being honest about the ugly parts of our history, and consolidating my sense of self has been liberating in so many ways.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.