Justin Simien Quotes

This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.

It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.

It's all about, no matter where you come from, that you can be who you want to be and achieve what you want to achieve. I want people to learn to love who they are. Because that's the hardest thing in life, being able to see yourself the way other people see you.

I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free!

If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It’s about freedom.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.

I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.

I came to love, I came into my own.

I love the ability to transform because that, for me, is a liberation.

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

There's no better time than now to be who you are.

I truly believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person.

Make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You push for colour-blind casting; you draw your own box. You introduce yourself as who you are, not what colour your parents happen to be.

I've come out of myself as a person at Chelsea and expressed myself on and off the pitch.

Getting to be authentic is so liberating.

I think that my whole journey had been getting to the place where I can accept myself for who I am, to be the woman that I'm meant to be, but you have to get there first.

If you stop trying to restrict yourself by defining yourself and love in other people's terms, it's the most liberating thing.

Be whatever you want to be.

When my divorce came through, it was like being let out of a cage because I hadn't been true to myself before; I was being something that was expected of me.

Life is short, and there's something to be said for being true to yourself.

'Meenaxi' was a lesson in liberation. It taught me to be a free spirit and understand the pleasure of my work by being different people, just like Meenaxi is.