Kay Cannon Quotes

I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.

I knew I had more in me than just standing up and having my picture taken... Being in the studio, I have to have an opinion.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

I want to show people there's more to me than they think.

My music is 100-percent me, so it's just who I developed into as a woman. I feel really grateful that I waited until I did because I feel like I really found who I was by doing that.

I reveal all of myself. I bring all of myself to my roles. You only see me. You don't see anything else but me. That is who's there. They're manifestations of my own self.

I started writing for myself because I know how to write for myself. I know how to show what I can do.

I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

Write what you think is good, is the whole of the law.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

I don't think my approach to acting is all necessarily in service of the character. I think, selfishly, I've put it in service of myself, my perspective on the world and helping my life.

You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.

I don't really go out and do too much like networking and Hollywood events kind of thing. But I do some writing, and I find it helps me as an actor in terms of giving yourself back the power and feeling a bit of strength in that respect.

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.

I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

I replaced Walsh, I replaced Blackmore, now I just gotta be me.

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.

You change the world by being yourself.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.