Orhan Pamuk Quotes

I never had any trouble being myself. Myself was a problem for a lot of people, but I didn't have a problem.

I understand I'm not everyone's cup of tea, and I certainly don't want everyone to look like me. I really only dress for myself.

I know how I look like. I know how I sound. I know how I walk. I'm just gonna be me. I do me, and you do you.

I do so hate to be forced to be anything than other than what I am.

I must be allowed to be as I am.

I'm just who I am. I don't try to change myself for other people.

I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.

I don't want to be the next anyone. I'm just me.

If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.

I didn't want to be anyone else.

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

People try to tell me like that, 'Oh, you shouldn't be proud,' or, 'You're not this,' or, 'You aren't that,' or whatever the hell. I'm just kinda here to say, like, who is anybody else to tell me who I am or what I've gone through or what I haven't gone through?

When I was 16, I was doing what was popular. If I could go back, I would tell myself to not be afraid to be alone and not to follow others so much.

I'm not trying to be anyone else.

I want to stress to people to be themselves instead of trying to be like others.

Be yourself. And every person is unique.

When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken.

Only recently have I realized that being different is not something you want to hide or squelch or suppress.

Be yourself, be an individual - people are scared to be themselves.

I'm not everyone's cup of tea, but that's the great part: I don't have to be.

Be yourself, no matter what they say.

I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

Don't change for nobody.

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.