What You Are Quotes

You cannot make a business case that you should be who you are not

I never analyze stuff with comedy because it's boring. It makes you stop being funny. Just be who you are and do what you do, and you're either funny or you're not.

There's something to be said for embracing who you are.

I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

A lot of the reasons why something is a favorite thing are all things you don't necessarily see, the place, the people, the time, where you are, what it meant to you at the time.

You've got to give up who you are now for who you want to be in the future.

It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club, that's just normal.

It's time for you to know who you are

You can't just change who you are on the outside and expect it to change who you are on the inside.

Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.

There's a certain level of realness in Philly. You know, just - people are people. You know, it doesn't matter who you are or who you think you are, you're just a person in Philly.

Lies. Mab cannot change who you are.

If you don't like where you are, then change it. You are not a tree!

No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle.

It's frustrating when you come over here [Hollywood], especially from a position that I was in, in Sweden, where most people know who you are, but then you come here.

Just because something didn't work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

You may have failed, but you are not a failure. That's what you did. That's not who you are.

Failure is an event-it’s not who you are. Don’t let that label get stuck on you. If one dream dies, dream another dream.

A good environment certainly makes it easier to grow. But whether you’re in a good environment or not, you can learn and improve where you are.

The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.

We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are.

You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help

It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.

Work hard - beat out half the team. Be committed, play fair as a team player - Beat out another quarter of the team. The last quarter is your desire and beliefs, and where you are playing.

Clothes are not so much about who you are as who you want to be.

Fame is protection if you go to a scary place. Fame is fun. A lot of people don't say anything and you don't know they know who you are.

Everything makes you who you are, so I was lucky that I had a good family that was horrified by what I wanted to do but was also supportive of it, right to the very end.

Everyone of you got to where you are because someone influenced you.

Why I'm not where you are ...

I think it's like everything you do is just a reflection of who you are as an artist.

The biggest fashion mistake people make is they try to hang on to their youth. Embrace who you are now-your body, your lifestyle, your coloring.

Growing up in the acting world, you have a lot of opportunities to change who you are and what you believe in based on how people treat you. I never wanted to do that.

It doesn't matter what you look like really though, it is who you are that matters of course.

You really have to know who you are. It takes, uh it's not that easy.

Sometimes you need to get away for a few weeks just to figure out who you are again.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

Memory is identity....You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are; when you forget your life you cease to be, even before your death.

Changing someone's life is not the best, is not wanting to change the other life. It is being who you are that changes another's life. Do you understand?

My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed and can't fight against it.

That's the only thing I feel like, "No, no, no, no - I know the way. I know the way. I know where you are and you need to come with me, and we need to take care of our skin."

Say what you mean, be who you are, and hope for the best.

They are this horrible thing where you are distorted. The chin is too big, the head is too small. No, this is electronic masturbation.

Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.

Success is doing the right thing for who you are.

Don’t portray yourself as who you want to be. Portray yourself as who you are.

Most people say, "Hell, no. I don't know who you are. This scares me. Like, I'm not interested in this."Another way of looking at these paintings is, these are the guys who said yes.

There was no image of the other biological half of myself. And as an artists, as a - as an - as a portraitist, the look of who you are was radically important to me.

I dont ever want to part with any of my shoes. They all have a special place in my heart because they say something about who you are today.

I don't have any special advice for America's women, except to know who you are and to put your priorities in order and to not worry about the naysayers and critics say.

There's nothing more powerful than coming out and being who you are.