Malachy McCourt Quotes

I want my name to mean me.

I just wanna be myself, and I want you to love me for who I am

To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.

I am who I am, born that way, and will die that way.

I would never want to change myself to be someone I'm not.

She used to say 'You can be whoever you want, even yourself'.... Yeah, I show up knowin exactly who I was and never leave as myself

Do your thing, and I shall know you.

If I can't be me, I don't want to be anybody. I was born that way.

I don't care that people thought I was one way for my whole career because now that I am not attached to a team, I can have my own opinion, I can have my own voice. I can link myself to my own thought process rather than a generic message most teams try to get across.

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.

I can't be anybody but myself.

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

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.

There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.

I just feel like people are who they are.

I don't view myself as a 'trans actor' or a 'trans model.' I mean, I am - it's part of who I am - but it's not something that solely defines me.

I walk in the world as a woman because I am a woman, and people should take me as that. I'm not passing as anything that I'm not. I'm just being myself.

This is not me, WWE doesn't define who Ashley is.

I just want to be normal, like everybody else." "Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?

Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment.

I am not an image. I am a human being.

I feel like I never get to play any version of myself or get to be a normal person.

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.