Henry James Quotes

I want to continue to show what I'm all about.

I see people as being what their personality is at the moment of expression.

I believe in just being yourself, and the whole kit and caboodle comes with it.

There's no person I aspire to be. I'm just doing my own thing and seeing what happens - not looking to something and trying to be that.

For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional.

The thing is not to follow a pattern. Follow your own pattern of feeling and thought. The thing is to accept your own life and not try to live someone else's life. Look, the thumbprint is not like any other, and the thumbprint is what you must go by.

You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you aren't. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature. You still won't be perfect, but success isn't about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence.

Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won't work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.

The main thing is to be yourself and not allow people to disturb you to be different, because they want you to be different. You gotta be yourself. Many times you throw a mistake due to your own personality or your own character or from interference that you get along the way then you learn, and the main thing is to learn from your mistakes and get better.

Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone else. The important thing is that we live true to ourselves and cause the great flower of our lives to blossom.

Unhappiness comes when you try to be like everyone else rather than embracing the unique person that you are.

My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.

Always try to be yourself.

I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief.

Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.

You have ideas planted in your head, thoughts you never had before, that tell you how you have to act, how you have to dress and who you have to be. I have been trying to push back, to be authentic, to follow my heart, but it can be hard.

You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!

You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

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.

Do be true to yourself, whether it's bad doesn't matter. The important thing - you have to copy while you're studying. And culture is - each of us - is like one pearl added to another to make a chain. We each contribute to the other. And that's all right. But once you're on your own, do that which comes from within. And I feel this very strongly.

Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.

All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.