Bidzina Ivanishvili Quotes

My real personality comes out in the country. More spontaneous, more excited. There's always someone watching you in the city - you're a sort of zoo animal. My true nature is to want to hide a bit.

I am not sure precisely why we need to have privacy, but everyone knows for sure that we need to relax and not have to put on our social, outwardly looking face all of the time.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do.

I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.

I have such freedom when I'm living through a mask, and by contrast, can feel very exposed when a camera is capturing my real face. Kind of like the difference between walking out your front door in a sweater and jeans or in a Speedo.

When I'm with my friends I'm funny, but I don't feel like I'm a funny clown.

I just do my thing, what I feel.

When my divorce came through, it was like being let out of a cage because I hadn't been true to myself before; I was being something that was expected of me.

You can be yourself and still have fun without crossing the line. Sometimes I feel like today's players don't want to do anything! Come on, be yourself! That's what people want.

I regret not dancing more, just cutting loose on the dance floor. I still admire those who don't care much about what others think of them.

Oh, Mona, we're all damned fools! Some of us just have more fun with it than others. Loosen up, dear! Don't be so afraid to cry . . . or laugh, for that matter. Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!

Life is too short to worry about what others say about you. Have fun and give them something to talk about.

To live is to express oneself freely

I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot.

You may have to live in a crowd, but you do not have to live like it.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

It's important just to be yourself. And probably stay out of trouble.

You can't be free if the cost of being you is too high.

Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.

I just wanted it to be me.

I'm afraid when too many people know too much about you, it actually makes us all a lot more boring because you're afraid to express yourself.

I'mma just do me, when it feel right.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.