Gus Kenworthy Quotes

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

I've realized the person that I've always been and this gift that I've always had just had to be brought to light. It surprised me the most that being more who I am and not who I thought I had to be would make me successful.

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

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

I truly believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

I want to tell everyone that no matter what's keeping them from being their authentic self to hold on to the hope that there will be an end to that road. There will be a life where they can live their true self.

If you stop trying to restrict yourself by defining yourself and love in other people's terms, it's the most liberating thing.

I've had so many moments where seeing other women be fully and truly and authentically themselves, and express that, has given me permission. Once you see it happening, you're like, "Oh, I have permission to do that, too."

As we free ourselves from the suffering of 'something is wrong with me, 'we trust and express the fullness of who we are.'

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

I was fine being in the closet at the beginning of my career because that's what you were supposed to be - until I realized that it didn't serve anybody, and I was left feeling utterly empty. This is who I am, so I've gotta be me.

I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.

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

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

'Rick' never really fit. I tried for 18 years to make it work, and no one wanted to call me Rick. It should always have been Ricky. That's what it always should have been, so I'm going back to it.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.