Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eva Green

I love photo shoots where I can be like a pinup, not myself. Where I can be feminine, glamorous, dark not like in real life. I hate it when you go in and they want you to be 'natural,' to be yourself. I just hate it. I love having fun. When they ask you to smile, I hate it. Of course I smile in my real life, but to do it on cue, that's not spontaneous. I'd rather do something that's like a little movie, like a little story, rather than just me, I feel naked.

Jim Butcher

No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)

Candice Swanepoel

Just be. Don't try to be yourself, because you already are. Balance your spirit and empower your gifts. If it is in you and you can feel it, see it, and want to share it, then learn to understand it, not become it. We are born with all the wisdom in the world; it's up to us to open the door inch by inch throughout life.

Candace Bushnell

Who am I supposed to be again? Just be yourself. But who am I?

Mike Dirnt

Be yourself. Unless you have the option to be Batman, then always be Batman.

Keira Knightley

Everybody can take a good picture. Everybody is interesting. Everyone has an interesting face. Some people are more difficult or more nervous or more tired. When you do a movie, you have action, you're talking, you're moving. You don't see the camera. Taking a picture with a photographer, you don't talk, it's more difficult than in a movie for your body to relax, to be yourself.

Ice T

That's basically the gangster code. Just be yourself. Just be you, dog. The easiest way to get your card plucked around a gangster is to be a fake. If we feel like you're trying too hard, if you're trying to act like you're from the street, you're in trouble.

Jenna Marbles

In order to find out who you are, you will, at some point, have to feel really isolated, left out, different.

Jenna Marbles

You can always care [about what others think]. You probably always will care. But don't let it dictate your choices and what you want and what you want to accomplish and who you want to be. Don't let anyone get in the way of that. That's being yourself.

Jenna Marbles

As weird and awful and terrible as it may seem to be yourself sometimes, it will always reward you.

Jenna Marbles

If you want to be like someone, there's nothing stopping you from modeling yourself after someone else. You don't have to BE them - that's not your job in life. Your job in life is not to be someone else. You just want to be as good at being you as that person is at being them.

Jenna Marbles

When I'm feeling sad, or lonely, and I don't know what I'm doing and I don't know where I'm going, I imagine the Cool Awesome Future Version of Myself just telling my present self, "It's okay. You just gotta grab that giraffe by the ears and ride it on out."

Jenna Marbles

I believe that you become yourself every single day of your life through your choices and how you think. And that's constantly changing every day... You are constantly changing, evolving through your experiences, how you interpret your experiences, and how you choose to do things in the future based on those experiences... Being yourself means you think with your own mind, and you make your own choices and that makes you you.

Jenna Marbles

One of the benefits of being you is: You know that the people who love you, love you for you. They don't love you for who they think you are or who you're pretending to be.

Jenna Marbles

You are the most rare & majestic you there ever was and ever will be.

Jenna Marbles

You are constantly changing & evolving through your experiences, how you interpret your experiences, and how you choose to do things in the future based on those experiences.

Jenna Marbles

You become yourself, every single day of your life, through your choices and how you think.

Jenna Marbles

Don't ever, ever, ever give up, because you're here for a reason, even if it's just to laugh at cats on the internet.

Jenna Marbles

The single greatest gift you could ever give the world is to be exactly who you are.

Gertrude Stein

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

Gertrude Stein

Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In the presence of some people we inevitably depart From ourselves: we are inaccurate, we say things we do not feel, And talk nonsense. When we get home we are conscious that we Have made fools of ourselves. Never go near these people.

Hugh Laurie

Keep on being yourself.

Honore de Balzac

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

Harvey Milk

If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities... the expression of love... then life itself loses its meaning.

Harvey Penick

Be yourself. Play within yourself. Play your own game.

Jaleel White

You should never be afraid to be yourself, under any circumstances. The genre of cool is fleeting. What's cool today will not be cool a year from now. If you're yourself, you'll be at peace with yourself.

Jaime Winstone

I think the best thing your parents can do for you is to let you be yourself.

Jaime Murray

Always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn. Then, always be a unicorn.

Jack White

I probably could have a hip-hop-style entourage of 40 people coming with me to the club or whatever, and I don't do that. And I think sometimes maybe I should. It just makes things easier - if you don't like being by yourself, maybe just don't do it ever.

Iyanla Vanzant

Always remember who you are. Know that you are never required to apologize to anyone for being yourself.

Isaac Asimov

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Iris Apfel

Never be afraid to stop traffic.