LeRoy Neiman Quotes

No, I am who I am. I'm not going to change for anybody.

I am stubborn enough to know not to change myself.

You've got to hang on to who you are, what you are. Don't let anyone take it from you.

There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road.

I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits.

Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.

I'm such a strong-headed person and so stubborn, I don't need someone to be sweet to me.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.

Don't change for nobody.

I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Whether I'm single or in a relationship, I'm the same person. The same human being.

I'm trying my best with what I want to do, which is modelling. I think I'm on my own career path, and I don't really care what other people have to say about me being in the spotlight of my sisters. I'm just doing my own thing.

All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.

If I gave a damn what other people think of me, I would be more like other people.

I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.

I never said to myself, 'I'm going to be the greatest.' I just wanted to do my own thing.

I'm set in my own ways. I like to do the things I want to do when I want to do them.

For me, I never want anyone outside of my immediate family and outside of me to have the power to alter the way that I walk, talk, shop, or date. When you start feeding off of that outside acceptance and accolades, you lose sight of what's actually real. Once you get there, it's kind of hard to double back.

We've stood by who we are and we didn't listen to anyone else.

I'm a stubborn individual.

I know if I stay true to myself and stick to my guns, I will never fail myself.

I know at the back of my mind that there's no way I can please everybody, so I still just have to be myself anyway.

I just try to be myself. But I will tell you this: I will not back down to anyone.

I'm a grafter, but all I've ever been is myself.