Tina Turner Quotes

I'm clearly doing what I want. I hope kids can see my act and feel like they can be slightly more comfortable in their own skin because I'm being so ridiculously comfortable in mine. I'm not that comfortable in my skin the moment I walk offstage. But I try to project that while I'm on it.

The jungle has taught me to accept who I really am - my skin is play and freckly, my bum and hips are big, and my hair is frizzy - that's who I am.

I felt more comfortable playing other people than being myself, when I was a kid. And then, the tables turned. Through my performances, I've become more comfortable with who I am, and then I just bring more of myself into the people that I play.

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.

I'm okay in my skin, you know... I'm okay with who I am.

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.

I'm not tired of who I am. That would be sad!

I've spent a lot of time self-reflecting. Especially as an actor, you have to know yourself really well in order to do things effectively. And when I dress, I dress for me. I don't dress to make other people think that I'm this way or that way.

I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about.

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.

In the beginning, I was worried there are too many shots of me as a boy out there. Now I'm at a point where I know my past doesn't make me any less of a woman today. I can be proud of it. I don't have to bury it.

When you really understand who you are, it enables you to fight and believe.

I love seeing a young woman embrace who she is.

I've learned to accept who I am.

Every time I dance, I'm trying to prove myself to myself.

I'm confident in who I am, and I'm not doing anything wrong. I'm just being myself: being comfortable with my body, comfortable with my sound, and I'm figuring out who I am.

I don't want to change anything about myself.

I'm able to go out there, and I'm really able to be, like, unabashedly myself. And I want somebody who's young, who's struggling, who's not sure if it's OK if they are themselves to know that it's OK.

I know who I am and I know who I'm not. I'm different, yes, and I am big. But I love who I am.

I have read a lot about what I am and who I am: 'mini,' a copy, simply 'more of the same.' Dear delegates, I stand before you as I am and as life made me and I am proud of that.

I know who I am. I'm proud of my journey.

What if everything I thought was wrong with me was actually right with me? You have to have the courage to show who you are to the world.

There is a beauty and a special quality in being what I am. I know it, and I've learned how to use it.

I'm very, very comfortable with who I am.

My confidence comes from the realisation that, actually, the best you can be is you, learning to accept who I was, what I wanted, and that I was more than my body.