Kat Von D Quotes

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

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

No matter what you do, your person comes through. You can't completely change yourself on the screen. I had in mind someone colder and more in control, but I couldn't do it. This human note just crept in and maybe it's better.

I don't think about my look that much, to be honest. It's what I've always known, it's what I've grown up with, and I wouldn't ever want to step too far away from my most authentic self.

At the end of the day, when all the fighting stops and when everybody stops shouting your name, you've still got to be yourself and I feel I am.

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.

Be yourself. Play within yourself. Play your own game.

I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately. All I have to do is think of me and I have peace of mind. I'm tired of looking 'round rooms wondering what I've got to do or who I'm supposed to be. I don't want to be anything other than me.

I guess what I know now that I definitely didn't know as a child, is that being truest to yourself is the greatest weapon in the war to achieve. That sounds really negative, but in conquering or achieving something. I think, as a child, I thought I had to be somebody else.

Vulnerability is a loaded word, and it can off-putting and terrifying to people. The best moment of my life (and by the way, this actually wasn’t a single moment) was when I realized that I no longer give a damn about what anybody thinks. What you'd talk about as vulnerability, I'd talk about as simply being true to yourself.

I care what people think, but that doesn't change what I say. I am who I am.

I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.

If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

Always be yourself. At the end of the day, that's all you've really got; when you strip everything down, that's all you've got, so always be yourself.

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are.

If I were but a man who would be tall, I would be me.

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.

I try to be authentically who I am.

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

Just be yourself and forget all of the stuff you read in 'GQ' magazine.