Ruben Santiago-Hudson Quotes

I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.

If my idea was just to maintain a certain lifestyle, there would be no need to get a Ph.D. But I do care very deeply about the idea side as well.

Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.

I barely got out of high school, and I look back at my life often and go, 'Wow, this was awesome!'

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

I'm a highly-educated man, maybe a shocker to some. I have a master's degree. I'm no dumbo.

The most important thing you can do for yourself is get an education. Learn, listen, and respond. You have to study and practice to get better at your craft and to widen your skill set.

You often hear when you talk to guys in our industry, that this is my personality, I just turn the volume up, but over the years, I've really become me. No volume turned up, no nothing. I've been able to go out there and just be myself. It's through solid performance after solid performance that people just take you for who you are.

In some ways I've gone to Cash and Carter graduate school.

I'm trying to show people that I'm a person, and I deal with the same things as you guys, and I'm trying to make the best of it.

I don't feel a need to prove anything or rewrite my legacy.

Earlier, I would never focus on how I looked because I thought I was just 'OK.' So my focus was on being well-read, good in studies, school captain. My personality depended on what I read, not on some magical genetic thing.

It's impossible to be perfect, and you won't do a good job if you're too focused on proving yourself to others.

I'm not ashamed to be me. More than anyone else I know, I love my life and accept myself. What's wrong with being unique? I am proud of everything that I am and will become.

Always be yourself... unless you suck.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are. But it definitely wasn't easy - it took me a while.

Always think yourself a perfect being and be satisfied with yourself.

Don't worry about people knowing you. Make yourself worth knowing.

What I'm proud of, we learned from our lessons.

Through my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

Hiding, secrets, and not being able to be yourself is one of the worst things ever for a person. It gives you low self-esteem. You never get to reach that peak in your life. You should always be able to be yourself and be proud of yourself.

I will always do R. Kelly - I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.

I want to be successful, and I want to do good, but I also want to be myself.

The more successful I become, the more I want to remain like me, with my defects and insecurities.