Jessica Brown Findlay Quotes

As you get older, whatever your struggles may be - how you sound, how you look, how you dress - you grow into yourself a little bit more. You end up realizing the world wants you and not a carbon copy of six other people.

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.

Growing up, I wish I hadn't tried so hard to fit in. I'd tell myself to just embrace what you were born with because it's beautiful and you were made like that for a reason.

The best way to be more like me is to be more like you.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.

People are embracing the thing that made them different growing up instead of letting that thing elicit shame.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

Hima is Hima only. I haven't changed.

In the real world, I kind of, like, thrived a little bit. The things that were awkward about me at school, like being hyper passionate... I realized, 'Oh I'm my own person, and I have my own idiosyncrasies and nuances that I don't mind.'

The time I felt most beautiful was probably when I was in college, and I was starting to accept who I was as a person. I wasn't hiding who I was anymore, and I was like, 'You know what? I'm growing up; I don't have to follow the rules anymore.'

I gotta be who I am now. How do you not, right?

I am who I am. I'm unique. I'm my own self.

Kids used to tell me I was weird all the time. When I got older, I wanted to embrace my name and I put it on everything. And I also wanted to embrace being weird.

I didn't get jobs because when I went into the audition, I tried to be somebody else. I had to realize, what I can actually bring to the table is unique. No one else has experienced what I've experienced; no one else has walked in my shoes.

Too many girls try to imitate others and don't think about what makes them unique. The best part of a girl is what makes her who she is as an individual.

Don't try to be me. No one but me can be me. But you can be you. Look inside yourself and get to know who the real you is. And then be that person. The best version of you.