Sheridan Smith Quotes

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

If I put on a tie and play what I really think I am, I'm a disaster.

Sometimes when I go out on the road, I feel almost embarrassed or dismayed because I can't be the image of what kids want me to be. So I just try to be myself, and usually that works out OK.

It was easier to act, in a way, than to be myself. Somehow I just felt I was in the right place.

I am pretty much who I seem, and it's not a television host.

Fame terrifies me. I can say that with honesty. You're terrified that, when people know the real you, they won't like you.

I feel more comfortable when I'm somebody else, I think. When I'm taking a picture as myself, the whole idea of taking a headshot, to me, feels very false.

I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.

I was afraid to express myself for a while.

What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think - or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

When I was younger, I was afraid to be myself.

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 have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

The way that you are when you're allowed to be yourself is very different from when you're, say, being interviewed by Jeremy Paxman. You're never given the breathing space.

When you are in the public eye, it is really counterproductive to think about how you're viewed in the eyes of others. You just have to be who you are.

Being yourself, or being judged as yourself, is really scary.

Everybody who really knows me knows who I am, who I'm about and what I'm about.

I don't think you can do something wrong with your identity if you're living in your authenticity.

If you only share your best pictures, or your Facetuned self, the thought of people seeing you as you truly are can be scary.

I don't think of myself as anyone special, and I would not know how to define myself.

I remember in middle school and high school being so concerned with what everybody else thought. I was trying to be someone I wasn't. I wish I could've just let it slide and not cared about it.

Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.

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