David Bailey Quotes

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

I think there's always a conflict within me about being comfortable and secure and then being an individual and fighting for what I want to be on an individual basis.

I could finally quit my job as a bartender and stop dreaming that I might be Superman and know that I was. Then I started thinking about how cool it was.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.

I think the best thing your parents can do for you is to let you be yourself.

Let us first obtain ourselves…Give us ourselves and all that belongs to us will follow.

More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person.

Freedom to me can be so many things; freedom to be myself, to express myself and do the things I want to do, freedom to go in any direction I want to go in order to accomplish my goals.

Who are we? Whom do we want to become? How do we perceive ourselves? How do we want to be perceived? These questions of identity are often at the core of our own internal struggles. Resolve them, and you are closer to being free.

I started coming into my own at 30, discovering what's important to me, not caring what other people think.

I can never be who I was. I can simply watch her with sympathy, understanding, and some measure of awe. There she goes, backpack on, headed for the subway or the airport. She did her best with her eyeliner. She learned a new word she wants to try out on you. She is ambling along. She is looking for it.

You've decided to love me for eternity, I'm still deciding who I want to be today.

You will always be a monster - there is no turning back from it. But what kind of monster you become is entirely up to you.

I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it?' " 'The way I want it?' " 'Yeah. The way you want it. Don't you want it to be something more than what it is?' " 'What'st eh point? I can't change it.' " 'That's the point. If you don't, it will change you and it'll be your fault cause you let it. I let it. And messed up my life.' " 'Mess it up how?' " 'Forgot it.' " 'Forgot?' " 'Forgot it was mine. My life. I just ran up and down the streets wishing I was somebody else.

You can survive without a label... matter a fact, you're better off without one!

The point of life that I'm currently at is a 'me right now' type of attitude. I am 37 years-old, my son is in college and my daughter is in high school. I'm becoming okay with me. I can't live life as an artist or person being someone that someone else has tried to mold me into. I'm not going to put on a dress that's two sizes too small. I'm custom making my own clothes so that they'll never fit anyone else if you know what I mean.

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

I want to show that we all have the right to be ourselves, and I certainly don't want to freeze time.

I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.