Oscar Wilde Quotes

I've spent twenty-eight years doing what everyone around me expected me to do...being what everyone around me has expected me to be. And it's horrid to be someone else's vision of yourself.

What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.

I've learned a lot about how people have to fight through their whole lives just to be themselves.

What Hollywood truly wants is for people to be themselves. I think what it's designed for is to kind of turn people into something and just make them saleable. But what it really stands for, what it really loves, are people who are unafraid to be themselves, and as you can see, these are people who are excelling in their careers.

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.

People sometimes are afraid to be who they are because of other people's ideals.

I just want to be normal, like everybody else." "Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?

Being somebody: it's one of the ideas in life, no? That's what my father made clear to me. The importance of being somebody. He wanted to be somebody. And he underlined to me the fate of trying to be somebody and not quite managing to do it.

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

You don't have to give up who you are to be successful just because you're different.

If you keep changing for every person who tells you to, then who's going to be left? Why get the success and be somebody else?

Most people are other people.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

I think you're always policing yourself by trying to do what you think would be "cool" and accepted by other people, until you start to figure out who you really want to be. Growing up is an ongoing push-and-pull of you being yourself and you performing to what society expects you to be.

It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.

I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.

I know that everybody is so obsessed with this idea of fame, and they think that I'm obsessed. In all honesty, I'm just doing me.

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.

I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

Keep your sense of self; don't get caught up in what people want you to be.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.