Naomie Harris Quotes

When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken.

I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.

I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.

I don't mind not being cool.

I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked,' it made me feel really cool for being different... and you can carve that in stone!

You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.

All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'

It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.

I've never been cool - and I don't care.

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

I think everyone at times feels awkward, like they don't fit in. But I was lucky to have super-cool parents who reminded me to embrace what makes you special - that you shouldn't want to blend in with everybody.

When I was a kid, I always had the red hair, the white skin, and freckles. Back then, I wanted to look like everybody else, but now I realize that being different is definitely a major help.

I've never wanted to be anybody else, and I never thought anybody else could be me more than me.

Just because you're not like other people doesn't mean that you're bad. It means that you're different, and that's great.

I can't be like Brandy. I have to be me.

Don't worry about fitting in - it's completely over-rated.

Just keep being yourself. Keep being yourself, and people recognize it.

I was the last person to experience everything. I didn't really waste time worrying about fitting in or going to parties, because I looked very young for my age and wouldn't have fit in even if I tried.

As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them

Be yourself, no matter what they say.

One thing I've learned best from my mom is to be yourself and not everyone will get you and that's okay. I try to bring that into everything that I do and just understand that I will not be everyone's cup of tea and that's fine.

I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said.

Be yourself. And if you're not accepted by your family, there will be people who will accept you.

Being confident is the key to life. Don't be afraid to be you! I'm super different from a lot of kids my age with style and personality, and I'm OK with it. And if you are OK with it, everyone else will be, too. Just be yourself.

If you act weird, people are going to treat you weird, but if you're just yourself, people respond to that.