Amber Liu Quotes

Acting is about giving yourself away, like the U2 song 'With or Without You.' You just don't stay behind a character and make people laugh or cry. At some point you have to take off that mask, and when you do, you're a human being, not just an actor. After all, I'm Catherine the person first. You share that.

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

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

When I was younger, I was afraid to be myself.

I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.

I decided a long time ago to be myself and not worry too much about cultivating some kind of personality that didn't feel natural or true to who I am.

Some people are attracted to vulnerability. From my very first album, I've been vulnerable. I've always given parts of me, parts of my life - good, bad, ugly. I've never put up this image as a super-thug. Also, some people just like the music.

With the first two albums and with my social media, I've always been very open about who I am.

I think I'm just always myself, and I think that's what's most important to me. Just be genuine. Be authentic. Be who you are and who you were meant to be. And celebrate that. Celebrate all of that.

I like people who are authentically themselves, and they own it, and most importantly, they own their story.

I want people to see just who I am.

I feel like being true to yourself is always going to keep you humble; it's always going to make you remember who you are.

Be yourself. Because if people don't like you as you are, they're not going to like you as somebody you're trying to be.

I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.

The biggest mistake a woman can make is not to be herself in public or private.

I think that ties in with issues of identity as well - that sometimes there are parts of us we want to hide, and then there's other times we say, "You know what? Nope. Done hiding that part."

Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.

suicide is absolute, and if you think you will survive by hiding who you really are, you are sadly misled: there is no such thing as partial or intermittent suicide. You can only survive if you - who you really are - do survive.

I think that, for a lot of us, the closer we get to showing people who we really are, that's where we feel the most uncomfortable, the most vulnerable. But it's also where the healthiest growth comes from. Like when I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.

It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.