Tana Mongeau Quotes

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

However, I've learned in my life that life is about living authentically. And for me, the best moments as I look back in my life, that I became the best versions of Jeannie that I'm proud of, was when I was honest with myself.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

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.

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

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.

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.

In my life and my work, I really try to be just fully myself.

I have to be true to myself, and that's what I know for sure. I can't try to be anybody else.

A lot of people have their own idea of how you need to conduct yourself. But I think it's important to be spontaneous and honest, because what's frightening in the process of being correct is that you might lose yourself.

Do stuff that is true to your own experiences.

I want people to see just who I am.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

I do my best to be true to who I am.

The only way we’ll ever know what it’s like to be you is if you work your best at being you as often as you can, and keep reminding yourself: That’s where home is.

I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.

You just be honest about who you are, and if you dont end up with any friends, then good for you.

Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

Well it's hard to be yourself, it's the hardest job there is.

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

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.

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.