John Lasseter Quotes

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

I'm one Pia Zadora, the same way all the time. That's why I'm happy. It took me a long time to get to the point where could be myself all the time.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

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.

There's no point in me being something other than me.

The whole journey of being a wrestler is also a journey of finding yourself and who you are. If it feels natural to you, it's natural to me because I'm just being myself every time I'm out there.

I've had people say things to me like, 'Don't change.' I don't know how to be anything other than myself.

My mom has raised me saying, "Always be yourself." So to be able to play a character that verifies just that, is such a thrill and adventure for me.

If you keep changing for every person who tells you to, then who's going to be left? Why get the success and be somebody else?

It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.

Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

Please, please, PLEASE be yourself. If you catch yourself not, take a step back.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

You should not really entertaining anyone else, but trying to be yourself, because there are already more good books than you or I could ever read in our lifetime.

I felt more comfortable playing other people than being myself, when I was a kid. And then, the tables turned. Through my performances, I've become more comfortable with who I am, and then I just bring more of myself into the people that I play.

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

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.

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

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.

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

In every role, a part of me gets to come out.

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.