Robert Lepage Quotes

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 think I have femininity, I have masculinity, but I get to use all of Jeffrey, and that's very powerful. And this is what I always thought when I went down in my little basement in San Francisco, where I grew up, and daydreamed about being an actor: It felt like this. This is what it felt like.

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.

I like to indulge all the facets of my personality. There's none that I don't think, in a way, I would want to take away from.

Now, as I move through my fifties, I can be professional and domestic, creative and intellectual, patient and urgent. I have learned that we should never settle for someone else's definition of who we can be. Growing to this age, I realize, is kind of like feeling your voice deepen. It's still your voice, but it has more substance, and it sounds like it knows its own origins.

it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

When I was younger, I was a complete tomboy. Then in college I started emerging out of the tomboy stage and dressing differently.

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

I was fine being in the closet at the beginning of my career because that's what you were supposed to be - until I realized that it didn't serve anybody, and I was left feeling utterly empty. This is who I am, so I've gotta be me.

I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.

I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.

Knowing yourself and expressing it is hip. I think knowing yourself is the real journey, for me anyway.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

If you feel inside you are a woman, be a woman - no one can take that away from you, man. No one can make that feeling go away. If that's what you need to do to be complete, then no one has the right to tell you you can't do that.

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.

The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.