Tony Robinson Quotes

When you know who you are, you know who you are. That's the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want to create you and mold you.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

It's so hard to know where you belong, ever. You have to be yourself and let yourself fall wherever you fall.

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

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

Truthfully, I'm still Corey Hart, Dad, first.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

I wish I didn't have ever to sign my long name on the cover of a book, and I wish I could write a story that would seem absolutely true to the child who hears it and to myself.

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

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

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.

I'm still very much Kate.

When who you are naturally is not only considered a sin, but you're reviled for being that human being and you don't have any control over it, there are lots of issues that come into play. And it takes a lot of presence, determination, courage and space to figure out how to land in that truth regardless of what anyone around you thinks about it.

That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

On the first album I was saying, that's just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I'm afraid of something? No. I'm just going to be myself.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

Doing 'All Good Things' really felt like I was acting for myself rather than anyone else. It gave me a freedom I'd never had before, or knew I had, to do whatever I want to, and to argue my opinions and not just feel like the cute girl on set or the girl in a boy's club. I figured out how I could be both. And it's been different ever since.

Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.

People often expect me to be something other than what I am.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.