Daphne Guinness Quotes

Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life.

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

Life is too short to blend in.

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

I definitely feel I'm outside of the polished pop girl group, which feels right. I don't think I could keep up that polished surface on purpose.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

Be yourself, let you come through.

You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

Don't worry what people say or what people think. Be yourself.

Seriously, I don't think there's any right way to do anything apart from if you're just being you; then it's a sincere situation.

I think it's good to do your own thing and want to be different, and not look like everyone else.

Don't you dare alter your inner freak.

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.

But to me, to be original is to be yourself.

Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

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 don't try to be in fashion; I don't try to follow trends. You just end up out of fashion that way.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.

I think the worst thing you can do is blend in. Why would you ever want to blend in?

In this world, one thing you should definitely strive for is originality. Just be who you are, and be your own person. That's what will make you stand out.

If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.

People wanted me to be like the Madonna, the white nun, you know, and that's not me. But I'm no villain.

I think my very best piece of advice is be yourself.