Lady Gaga Quotes

I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like.

We are perfect in our imperfection.

I'm perfectly flawed... I've got tons of flaws.

Perfect people are the scariest people to me.

I'm so not perfect.

When I was in school, I got there on the first day and everyone had long, blonde, straight hair, and I had short, dark, curly hair. I immediately felt I didn't fit in and started growing my hair. But I've learned that I'm only happy when I am truly me and feel comfortable and confident in myself.

There's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got.

The ideas I'm working with are ideas I'm committed to. I don't know how to soft-shoe them. I don't know how to make them more palpable. I just never knew how to be one of those girls. I wish I knew how to be that sometimes, but I don't know how to be that way.

The more successful I become, the more I want to remain like me, with my defects and insecurities.

We all try to pretend we're the person we want to be when we're really not, and you've just gotta be willing to say, 'Here are all my flaws; here's who I am - take it or leave it. If you love me still, then let's do this.'

You're flawless when you embrace the things about you that you don't necessarily like, but you own them because they're yours.

We think you should show your flaws to fans because that's what makes them love you more.

When we show our flaws, we show the world that we don't look pretty all the time.

It's so hard to know where you belong, ever. You have to be yourself and let yourself fall wherever you fall.

Your imperfections make you beautiful, they make you who you are.

And the bottom line is we are who we are-we look a certain way, we talk a certain way, we walk a certain way. I strut because I’m a supermodel, and sometimes I gallop for fun. When we learn to accept that, other people learn to accept us. So be who you really are. Embrace who you are. Literally. Hug yourself. Accept who you are. Unless you’re a serial killer.

You are perfectly imperfect.

I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I'm the little half-black, half-Jewish girl who was odd and awkward. I try to be myself.

I get to remind myself and other people to be yourself, to rock you who you are, and don't worry about if it fits.

I embrace the imperfections and celebrate them.

'Different' is such a good word. For me, ever since I was little, I always felt that something was off. And I just didn't have the resources to - I just didn't know what it was.

This is who I am. I'm not perfect. I don't want to try to be perfect.