Catie Curtis Quotes

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

I can't do anything else apart from be myself.

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

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!

Hima is Hima only. I haven't changed.

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

I didn't get jobs because when I went into the audition, I tried to be somebody else. I had to realize, what I can actually bring to the table is unique. No one else has experienced what I've experienced; no one else has walked in my shoes.

The whole journey of being a wrestler is also a journey of finding yourself and who you are. If it feels natural to you, it's natural to me because I'm just being myself every time I'm out there.

The way I move, the way I think, the way I handle myself - it might be by accident, but it's who I am, and I've just learned to own that.

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.

If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.

Everybody wants to be fancy and new. Nobody wants to be themselves. I mean, maybe people want to be themselves, but they want to be different, with different clothes or shorter hair or less fat. It's a fact. If there was a guy who just liked being himself and didn't want to be anybody else, that guy would be the most different guy in the world and everybody would want to be him.

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves. They want to be 50 Cent or someone else. They do what everyone else does even if it doesn’t fit where and who they are. But you get nowhere that way; your energy is weak and no one pays attention to you. You’re running away from the one thing that you own – what makes you different. I lost that fear. And once I felt the power that I had by showing the world I didn’t care about being like other people, I could never go back.

Most people are other people.

Apparently God makes us all different. Some of us are happy to respond to His individual touch on our lives by remaining individuals, and others of us are intimidated or frightened into trying to become like each other so that we have company, so that we don't feel so lonely.

Just be yourself, there is no one better.

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.

You are constantly invited to be what you are.

Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society.