Bernard-Henri Levy Quotes

You can't, as an actor, conduct yourself by making constant references to other people.

I'm not trying to please everybody. I'm just trying to play for one team and do it the right way.

I been me from day one, I'm not 'bout to start acting different, talking different, treating people different, or looking different.

I have to be true to what I think because that's my whole career.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

I think a part of being successful or trying to be successful is staying true to who you are. Be genuine.

One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.

It's important to be true to yourself and your vision.

Never compromise yourself.

In a way, I'd rather go into an interview and be disliked, and have unpleasant things written about me, than to have a wonderful, glowing article written that is in no way a reflection of who I am.

Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.

I've always tried to stay true to my authentic self.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

I have to stay true to myself.

The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.

Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.

I always try to be true to who I am and just be myself.

I want to continue to be the same man I've always been.

I owe it to my fans to be who I am. There's nothing fake about me.

You have to keep a strong sense of who you really are - and I have a pretty strong sense of myself. It gets me in trouble when I say this, but I don't think of myself as a politician. I've always tried to be honest when communicating with people.

I decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make up their minds about me whatever I do or say, but at least I know I am being true to myself.

Never agree to say or do anything that isn't you.

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

I would never agree to sing something I didn't feel was 100% me.