Sonya Deville Quotes

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

I'm 25. I'm a white, blonde girl in the entertainment industry - it's so easy to fall into a world of pleasing everyone. I feel more comfortable showing all these odd angles to myself.

I just felt that I was going to fall apart if I didn't learn to be myself.

I cannot be anyone else but Memphis. I tried that, and I was not happy with myself.

Having to stake out your identity and have people question whether or not you're being yourself was a tension that I could relate to.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

I believe so many people live what I call that false identity they are living according to other people's expectations, associations, their experiences, the labels in life. And they buy into that.

Ironically, it was because I was raised as a Muslim in the South, that I realised the value in being true to who you really are. I've just got so many things going on inside. I don't know how to resolve all of them other than being true to who I am.

So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

I just want to be who I am, as I am.

I'm really not sure what people think or expect me to be, but I am surprised when people say, 'You're not supposed to be like that... ' I'm not exactly sure what 'that' is, so I choose to take it as a compliment.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

Be yourself. I had this three-week period where I wore this straw fedora. I thought it was what chicks wanted. And then it dawned on me that I was trying to be something that I wasn't, so I took the fedora off. So be yourself.

I'm undeniably myself, and I think realizing that is the way to live life.

I am Thomas Muller, and I want to be like me.

Every one of us at some point in our lives has had the struggle with identity.

Accepting all that you are will lead you to live your best life and will allow you to be free and your true authentic self.

My passion, personally, is being my true self while inspiring young people who are struggling with their identities to love themselves for who they are.

In life, we are told to do or be so many different things and expected to fit so many different expectations; I think that's something I always had a hard time with.

I really didn't find myself… I was trying too hard to be too many things so I wasn't really anything.