Truman Capote Quotes

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

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.

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or a chisel to remind you of your me-ness, as I discover you in myself.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

I want to challenge people to find out who they are.

Learn what you are and be such.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.

I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.

Figure out who you are.

I've always been very conscious of who I am.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.