Hugh Jackman Quotes

Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

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

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

The beautiful thing is I have sort of grown up. I don't care if I'm highbrow or not anymore.

Figure out who you are.

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

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

It took me 30 years to figure out who I really am, as a person, and who I want to surround myself with. I was very much the kind of person who would just meld in with whatever group I was near.

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!

Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

For a long time, I consciously tried to be a good person for others. Not anymore. Caring about other people keeps me in line, but I've decided to just be myself.

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.

Life is short, and there's something to be said for being true to yourself.

I started coming into my own at 30, discovering what's important to me, not caring what other people think.

The day you realize you don't have to make sense to anyone is the day you start to make sense to you.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you’re doing that already. If it means to act like you’re exempt from society’s influence, that’s the worst advice in the world; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes. The advice to ‘be yourself’ is obviously nonsense. But our brains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortable to believe we have a strategy for life than to believe we have no idea how to behave.

Success takes the courage to know who you really are and be comfortable with that.

One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.

Every child is simple, just a clean slate. Then the parents start writing on his slate - what he has to become. Then the teachers, the priests, the leaders - they all go on emphasizing that you have to become somebody; otherwise, you have wasted your life. Just the opposite is the case. You are a being. You need not become anybody else. That is the meaning of simplicity: remaining at ease with one's being, and not going on any track of becoming - which is unending.