Richard Eyre Quotes

Singing is just another outlet to express what I feel and to show everyone who I really am. I really don't talk about my personal life that much in interviews because that's my life, but with music, the way I write explains who I am.

My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.

The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

The only thing I want to be defined by is my music and personality.

Music I do just for me.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

My work is intensely personal.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

I just kind of want to be me.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

For crying out loud, stop comparing and start living! And you'll be happier with your life, I guarantee. This is crucial: the most difficult thing in the world is to be who you are not. Pretending and trying to be someone else is the official pastime of the human race. And the easiest thing in the world is to be yourself. Be happy. Live! There must be a reason why God made you tall or short or fat or thin or bumpy all over. Love who you are!

You can't go around being what everyone wants you to be, living your life through other people's rules, and expect to be happy and have inner peace.

I couldn't care less what anybody says about me. I live my life, especially my personal life, strictly for myself... Whatever you do, you're going to be criticized. I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you.

I'm losing myself trying to compete with everyone else, instead of just being me.

Don't ever become so preoccupied by who you want to be that you forget to be who you are.

What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

Concepts vs. self-actualization. - Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!