Quotes About Self

I was never a prisoner to my footballing status.

I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.

It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging.

Success for me is being comfortable, and not in terms of a certain level of financial status, but that comfort comes from within.

Most importantly, you have to stay true to yourself as well as those fans who made you who you are as an athlete.

You've gotta stay true to yourself, stay who you are.

The pressure to be pretty? I set, you know, boundaries and goals for myself. I try not to compare myself to anyone else because I will never be anyone else except myself. So I try and stay true to me, and hopefully the right projects will come my way.

Just stay true to yourself and true to wut you believe.

I've always tried to stay true to my authentic self.

I have to stay true to myself.

You just got to be kind and stay true to yourself and follow what makes you happy inside.

There's nothing wrong with changing at all. But at your heart, you just got to stay true to who you are as a person, to who you always have been.

I have to stay true to who I am.

I stay true to who I am.

It's a challenge to stay true to oneself and celebrate our stories. I do so by continuing to be what I am, continuing to be myself.

I think I've been quite lucky in that I haven't had to make too many changes to myself. Obviously, there have been adaptations and things that I've altered, but I haven't changed completely. I've stayed myself.

I think part of being an actor is staying private.

I'm just steadily building myself up as Kelly Rowland, not just Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child, which is a blessing to be able to do that.

You still have only one self and one identity. However, self, identity and personality are not things, they are not objects, and they certainly are not rigid. Instead, they are biological processes built within the brain from numerous interactive components, step by step, over a period of time.

I wanted to step forward and be on TV and for people to see who I really was.

You have to figure out how you can step forward and affect your own life. I think that sense of empowerment is actually really positive, specifically for the young generation because they've been bystanders in their own lives for a while.

One of the fun things about being an actor is stepping outside yourself and outside of your own experience. It's challenging yourself to totally commit to something that in your core is so wrong.

My heart goes out to the Lindsay Lohans and Britneys who have really had childhood taken from them and probably missed important developmental steps. They have become sort of 'public domain' and something to be made money on. There's no sense of self there, I'm sure of it.

I think anytime you have expectations for your team and for yourself and you have goals that you want to accomplish you can't overlook the small stuff and the baby steps.