Bob Greene Quotes

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.

Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.

I express myself through clothes, but clothes don't define me.

I am not The Rock. I am Dwayne Johnson.

I want people to understand why I'm not 'P1' or 'P2.'

I don't feel like the 'first,' or the last, or a lady. I am Brigitte Macron!

Even though I like speaking freely, I don't really have a desire anymore to profile myself as the individual wanting to be recognized.

I'll be a role model on my terms, but don't make a role model on your terms.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

You are free to announce and declare Who You Are in every moment of Now. Indeed, you are doing so, without even knowing it. You are not free, however, to declare who someone else is, or who they must be.

Sometimes I think people are famous because they're themselves and they do a role and you see them do it.

I drink this [whiskey glass] and I'm just another JBL? you don't get it, I'm not like you. I'm not JBL, I'm CM Punk! Sometimes it's what you don't do that makes you who you are.

As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.

Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference?

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

I don't think a name defines the core of who you are.

I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

I don't think I have a signature.

You can’t have people make you what you are not. You can have advisers and political consultants, but at the end of the day, you are who you are.

I want to be more myself. Sometimes it takes awhile to find your voice.

Funny how defined we are by how we present ourselves to the world.

I'm just trying to be Emory Cohen.

I'm not trying to make a brand out of myself.