Jenna Wortham Quotes

To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self.

That's a lovely starting point for me as an actor: the question of what will we - or can we - do with this lot of years with which we're blessed? More than my other films, 'The Danish Girl' is about the gigantic risks involved in being true to one's self.

I only know how to be Sizzle.

Everything I do is true to the person I am. To me, there's not too much distinction between Elias and my former name.

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

I guess what I know now that I definitely didn't know as a child, is that being truest to yourself is the greatest weapon in the war to achieve. That sounds really negative, but in conquering or achieving something. I think, as a child, I thought I had to be somebody else.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?

I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

I want to challenge people to find out who they are.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Everyone seems to be fleeing from the responsibilities that come from being who you are. I think that is why the blogosphere is thriving. It allows people to develop a fantasy self.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.