Melissa Bank Quotes

Having to stake out your identity and have people question whether or not you're being yourself was a tension that I could relate to.

People are like, 'Be yourself, be yourself,' and I'm still trying to figure out who that is. I know I'm not perfect, but I know I have a lot of people that support me and love me, and I don't want to let anyone down, so I just try to be the best that I can be.

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

Being yourself is one of the hardest thing because it's scary you always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are.

Who am I supposed to be again? Just be yourself. But who am I?

In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else.

You've always made the mistake of being yourself.

I'd really love to meet the guy I'm supposed to be. I'd hire him in a second.

I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.

That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.

I was a highly sensitive kid, sort of an old soul, and I felt like a lot of people in my peer group didn't fully understand me, or I couldn't fully be myself. I just wasn't engaged in a way that was fulfilling me.

I think, as an actor, you are constantly playing other people. I would like people to get to know me on a more personal level.

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

I often feel like an outsider wherever I go, so I'm always attracted to stories about identity and the meaning of home.

I think I'm just always myself, and I think that's what's most important to me. Just be genuine. Be authentic. Be who you are and who you were meant to be. And celebrate that. Celebrate all of that.

I definitely, when I was younger, struggled a little to understand my identity and who I wanted to be.

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.

You have to be satiated with just being authentically yourself at the end of the day.

You are who you are, why should you deny your past?

Especially as an artist, the creative freedom we have makes us who we are. We're human beings-we're gonna mess up sometimes. I definitely feel like people should continue being who they are. As long as you're staying true to who you are, that's super important.

My music just stands for being true to who you are.

I think I spent a lot of my mid-twenties thinking it was a problem of my onstage persona. But, actually, it was my actual personality. I was still working out what kind of person I was.

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

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

The only way we’ll ever know what it’s like to be you is if you work your best at being you as often as you can, and keep reminding yourself: That’s where home is.