Dion DiMucci Quotes

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

It's easy to play a character, but playing yourself is difficult.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

We get so swept up in sort of what the media tells us to care about and all these other influences that we really have to dig down deep and figure out what is it that we as human beings really care about and want for ourselves. When you figure that out, you see who you really are.

Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least one's most authentic self. I always felt that my internal clock was calibrated somewhere between 47 and 53 years old.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.

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 don't even know what my voice is to this day.

It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self.

I've always been fascinated by this idea of who we are versus who we want to be.

Every one of us at some point in our lives has had the struggle with identity.

It feels weird to say there's more to me than that, like I'm being overdramatic, and a tear rolls down my cheek. But, no - I do like I feel like there's more to me than just baseball.

Do stuff that is true to your own experiences.

I'm definitely going to make sure that I just continue to live my life authentically.

Swavey is the movement. Three words... It's Unique, it's true, and it's yourself. It's a very unique thing: it's true to yourself, and it's all about you just being yourself.

The camera doesn't make you a better person, it doesn't even change the person that you are, it just magnifies who you are.

I think I spent a lot of my mid-twenties thinking it was a problem of my onstage persona. But, actually, it was my actual personality. I was still working out what kind of person I was.

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

Before tomorrow, make a list of your traits. Make YOUR list - who you are and why. Then ask yourself this question: where did it come from? Are you the way you are because it is what you want... or what they want? Are you a product of your imagination or someone else's? Think about it.

You have ideas planted in your head, thoughts you never had before, that tell you how you have to act, how you have to dress and who you have to be. I have been trying to push back, to be authentic, to follow my heart, but it can be hard.

You've always made the mistake of being yourself.