Top 55 Being Myself Quotes

I’m just being myself, honestly. I know society puts it, Oh, this is masculine and this is feminine. I don’t put myself in categories.

I never wanted to be an actor, and to this day I don’t. I can’t get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man, and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.

But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.

The country has been shaken up by me. I am just being myself.

I always just felt more comfortable just kind of hiding behind a character than being myself onstage.

I can’t create music if I’m wearing a mask and not being myself, and that was the problem with The Czars.

What I really realized is that by being myself, regardless of what that means, you become a better role model.

I’m trying to be as real as I can and I’m being myself. I’m not gonna create an act.

I’m happier on the runway than I am on the red carpet. Because then I am not being myself. I think, on the red carpet, it’s a weird, like, ‘Who am I? Am I me? Am I them?’

Being real in pro wrestling has paid off. Just being myself – that really translated to the fans.

I felt like I got more comfortable on ‘Idol’ when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be.

I can’t tone it down. I’m being me and being myself.

I enjoy being myself on television, where I am not enacting a character.

I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn’t working. I wasn’t being myself. What I should have done was say. ‘Girls, it’s really time for me to go on my own. I need to fulfill this dream of mine to have a solo album.’ And I didn’t know how to do that. I wanted to please them.

I’m not trying to be different. To me, I’m just being myself.

I didn’t start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

Everything I do, I do it being myself.

I feel more and more like ‘myself’ these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself.

I don’t follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, ‘Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.’ I just like being myself.

My strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.

I figured out that it was important for me to have my identity, just live independently and like being myself, musically.

I take a lot of pride in being myself. I’m comfortable with who I am.

I guess I just feel very comfortable with being myself.

I hate this quality, but I can go to dark levels when we lose. It’s not a panic attack, but there’s anxiety. I’m inconsolable. I’m a train wreck. I’m being myself. Then I get this crazy, intense focus, where I get desperate not to be embarrassed again. That dark spot is what I tap into. Creativity comes from there.

I love to act and put on a show, but you’re playing a character all the time. For music, it’s really just me being myself.

Television takes you to an altogether different audience and directly to people’s living room. On television, I’m being myself, and that’s why people relate to me more.

People have always found me challenging – I don’t know why, when I am only being myself. I don’t understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is.

I’m happy with being myself.

The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.

As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn’t really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn’t have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.

I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn’t until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.

I would have had an easier life if I were straight, but I would not be me. And I now like being myself better than the idea of being someone else, someone who, to be honest, I have neither the option of being nor the ability fully to imagine.

I felt more comfortable playing other people than being myself, when I was a kid. And then, the tables turned. Through my performances, I’ve become more comfortable with who I am, and then I just bring more of myself into the people that I play.

I don’t follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, ‘Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.’ I just like being myself.

When I perform, I’m just very much just being myself.

It took me years to realize that ‘normal’ is actually super boring and that being myself was harder but infinitely more rewarding.

I’m confident in who I am, and I’m not doing anything wrong. I’m just being myself: being comfortable with my body, comfortable with my sound, and I’m figuring out who I am.

Being myself has worked out pretty well for me I think.

When I was 19 or 20 and doing my thing, I can’t sit here and say I had this strong political agenda – I was literally just being myself.

I’m not somebody that’s trying to be somebody else. I’m being myself for the most part and people respect that.

I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn’t until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.

I’m quite happy being myself. I’m a big fan of Jessica Lange and Jeanne Moreau, but I don’t want to be anyone else.

The fact that I get to play a queer Filipino on television and another queer character in ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ is huge. I never thought I’d have a career being myself. I always thought that being an actor in Hollywood meant that I would have to put that side of me on the back burner.

When I started playing music, I was more of a character. Now I’m just me with a cool outfit on. I’m more comfortable being myself.

I’ll never be Jennifer Lawrence or Tom Cruise, someone who can hold a movie and then be charming and charismatic doing promotion. I haven’t got what they’ve got. But at least I’m now comfortable just being myself.

When I’m trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.

Just going along with this, what I did, or what I do is I imagine not being myself seeing it, but imagine somebody else who’s seeing it for the first time.

I’m just really excited to expose people to different identities, different conversations but also to kind of reframe how they think about black women just by being myself.

People will come at me telling me to wear this or wear that. If I don’t like it, I don’t like it. They couldn’t pay me to wear it. If it’s something I can rock with, I’ll rock it. I’m more interested in being completely authentic to me. In my opinion, being myself is making a statement.

As a human, you tend to lose your calm at some point. But I ensured I was being myself through the journey. I feel people liked my honesty and casualness.

Just try to play hard to win games and to be versatile. And also be a great teammate. I’m not faking anything I’m doing out here. I’m being myself. I’m not faking anything.

I would classify myself as an individual. That’s what I try to stay true with – being myself, 100 percent.

I’ve always prided myself on being myself and trying to stick true to who I am and how I was raised.

I had everything I’d hoped for, but I wasn’t being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn’t like me for being… me.

My tutorial videos are educational, but they’re goofy – I’m just being myself.