Iris Apfel Quotes

Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.

I think what people see in me is one slice of who I am. It does permeate my life in the sense that I don't like to be told what to do, or how to be, or how I can do it. But I'm probably a lot tamer than people would expect.

What I would tell everyone is don't lose your sense of individuality.

I just want to find my individuality.

You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.

Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.

Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.

There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness than to think, feel, and say what is ours.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

I've always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.

Wear what you want to wear. Do what you want to do. Be who you are. Pick out your own clothes. Be a man. And if that's too much to ask, as it almost always is for me, think of someone you consider to be a man and pretend to be like him. I pretend to be like my dad.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

I try so hard to be true to myself. I hope I can help other girls realize that they don't have to do things just because everyone else is doing them.

I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done

People like to put you into a box. I'm afraid I don't sit in a box.

I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people.