Adam DeVine Quotes

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

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 had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

I'm undeniably myself, and I think realizing that is the way to live life.

What I've come up with is that I just need to be me.

I learned that all you need to do is be yourself.

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.

I cannot be anyone else but Memphis. I tried that, and I was not happy with myself.

The best advice that I've gotten from Nas is honestly to just be me and to keep staying true to myself. It took me a long time to figure out how to pop, but then, when you get famous, people are kind of like, 'Oh, well, we don't want as much of you.'

I want people to see just who I am.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.

I don't care what people think of me or for what reason they think of me. I don't feel like I don't know who I am to the degree that I have to change my hair to create a new me.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

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 am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.