Richard Le Gallienne Quotes

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.

Living courageously in your uniqueness is really important: just being completely yourself. I know that sounds really cliche, but just do what you want to do.

You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.

Each individual's way is going to be different. Never follow anybody. That is the greatest calamity that can happen to a man. Once you start following somebody else, you become a carbon copy. You become an imitation.

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.

What I'd like to get across is try your best to be yourself. I realize there are those who are much further along than you are; there are stars, but learn to be who you are and to play yourself. Be confident in that fact.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

Once you get everything out of your head about what everybody else is going to think, will radio play it - and I hope they do, I really do - once you shed all of that and just be who you are, that's who I am. That's taken a lot of growing up. I've come into myself musically and as a woman, and I hope to keep growing. If you don't grow, you die.

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

I take a little bit from everybody and add that to my life to make me, me. I wanna be nobody else but Future. When you look at me, I want you to say, 'Future.' The way I talk, the way I dress, there's nobody in the world but me.

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

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

You can't do your work worrying about what people will think of it - you kind of just have to do your work.

You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.

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

I feel like there's something in me that desires to express myself even more and not be so afraid of a solo endeavor.

You must always be yourself, and do things at your own pace. Someday, you'll catch up.

It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.

If you are just yourself, that's when people start gravitating towards you because nobody else can be you except you. Be authentic, don't give up, and start today.

No one will ever be as good at being you as you. So start there. Perfect is boring.

It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

Be Sure you Are Stepping to the Music you Hear - No Matter what Other People Think.