Jimmy Scott Quotes

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

I know who I am. I'm proud of my journey.

I'm one Pia Zadora, the same way all the time. That's why I'm happy. It took me a long time to get to the point where could be myself all the time.

I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.

There's no better time than now to be who you are.

It's all about, no matter where you come from, that you can be who you want to be and achieve what you want to achieve. I want people to learn to love who they are. Because that's the hardest thing in life, being able to see yourself the way other people see you.

What if everything I thought was wrong with me was actually right with me? You have to have the courage to show who you are to the world.

All I'm trying to do is be me.

My confidence comes from the realisation that, actually, the best you can be is you, learning to accept who I was, what I wanted, and that I was more than my body.

I started coming into my own at 30, discovering what's important to me, not caring what other people think.

Once you really know yourself, can't nobody tell you nothing about you.

I would like to say, ladies and gentlemen, that you shouldn't be afraid of who you are. That's the first key idea. You shouldn't be afraid of who you are. You should NOT be afraid of who you are. It's very important for you to realize that.

Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.

I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

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.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Don't look at someone else and want to be them. Search within yourself and find out who you are and be someone positive.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

The minute you feel secure about yourself and own the fact your dreams are honest true, other things fix themselves.

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.

I've fully embraced who I am. I stopped fighting with people and just come to realize, 'This is me. This is all of me.'

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.