Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes

Some people work hard to be something that they're not, and I don't work at all, I'm just me. And that can bother anybody I'm not working nearly as hard as the other guys, and they don't like it.

My mom has raised me saying, "Always be yourself." So to be able to play a character that verifies just that, is such a thrill and adventure for me.

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself.

Be yourself, no matter what they say.

Please, please, PLEASE be yourself. If you catch yourself not, take a step back.

Be yourself is all that you can do.

You've always made the mistake of being yourself.

I'm still very much Kate.

It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.

I am who I am. I'm unique. I'm my own self.

When I just decided to be myself, that's when you get questions like, 'How do you feel about feminism?' And I have no idea; this is just when I decide what I'm not tolerating and what I genuinely think and a little bit in between.

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

You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you aren't. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature. You still won't be perfect, but success isn't about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.

Just be yourself man, be proud of who you are.

What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you’re doing that already. If it means to act like you’re exempt from society’s influence, that’s the worst advice in the world; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes. The advice to ‘be yourself’ is obviously nonsense. But our brains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortable to believe we have a strategy for life than to believe we have no idea how to behave.

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

Always try to be yourself.

Be yourself! And then tell us about it! And then let's dance!

It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

Do we dare be ourselves? That is the question that counts.

I would just like to be real and be me. It's just really hard to do walking around and everyone knows who I am.

In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else.