Ricky Williams Quotes

That's one of the real downfalls of celebrity. You're something that's about you at some point, and that gets latched onto and pumped into the machinery. Then you start having a million other people telling you who you are, and what you should be doing and why, and it's easy to lose your way.

To force something that was not organic to who I am was tough on me, and so I can relate to all those girls and guys out there going through the same thing.

'Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn't really hook into them. After 'An American Daughter' and 'Beauty Queen', I had all the ballast.

Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.

I think I lost my sense of identity when I was married. I know I did. And it took me a very long time to regain it and find out who I was.

The question I love to get asked is: 'What's the hardest part of your job?' And literally, the answer is probably real sad, but it's to just to be me. Like, it's really hard, because I think people, you know, have a set idea of what a pop star should be.

I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.

I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

This is what I would say to my pupil: 'You have become only your fame and left behind most of who you were. How are you going to deal with that? Will you lose that person forever? Have you become someone else without really knowing it? Do you always have to stay in character for people to like you? Do you know that you are in character?'.

When childhood ended, I had to suppress feminine characteristics and try and be a boy. I didn't want to grow up at all because it meant becoming someone else.

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

I've gotten used to being Frank Ocean.

If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.

I used to have a voice because I was interviewing people and writing, but as soon as I got swept up in the fashion world, I was just a pretty girl at a party wearing a pretty dress.

In life, we are told to do or be so many different things and expected to fit so many different expectations; I think that's something I always had a hard time with.

I originally thought I'd grow up to be a woman. I didn't question that when I was little.

What really ticks me off is how the public figures you automatically become the roles you play. What most people never see is the silly side of me.

I cannot be anyone else but Memphis. I tried that, and I was not happy with myself.

People seem to know more about me than I do.

I don't even recognize myself sometimes.

We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'

She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity.

We spend so much of our early lives trying to figure out who we really are. And we spend the rest of our lives preparing ourselves to let it go.

If you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.

I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore." And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.