Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

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

As we wrestle with questions of identity, we imitate those actions we think best fill an ambiguity we have within ourselves. And that goes for everyone; no one is free from this condition.

To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

You have to be someone.

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?

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.

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

All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

I'm not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.

No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.

Figure out who you are.

I come out of real life.

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

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

The ideas I'm working with are ideas I'm committed to. I don't know how to soft-shoe them. I don't know how to make them more palpable. I just never knew how to be one of those girls. I wish I knew how to be that sometimes, but I don't know how to be that way.

Training readers to expect a voice or subject matter from me would interfere with the reinvention I crave. At the same time, I feel almost too able to disappear at times.

If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.

Hima is Hima only. I haven't changed.

I only know how to be Sizzle.

I can't just suddenly become 'Little Peace and Love Jair'... I've got to carry on being the same person.