Elizabeth Banks Quotes

I'm challenging everybody on every side of every divide to be more who they are, to cultivate their capacity for awareness.

I don't want to hurt anybody or be offensive. But I don't want to not be me.

Diversity is more than just a buzzword to me. It's my life.

I'm a big fan of Lady Gaga. I think she's kinda what modeling is about in a way: Unique-ness, different-ness, edginess, quirkiness is actually special and I think her message is - I wouldn't say it's exactly like my message - but there are similarities in embracing your uniqueness. When she talks about being born this way, I really think she's absolutely fabulous.

You don't have to fit into a particular box. You fit into a box that you're comfortable in, and you'll attract people with like minds. It took me a while to figure this out, but there are many ideals. You have to figure right what's best for you and that will radiate out of you. I think a certain amount of letting go and being brave and not being afraid to make mistakes to get there.

I take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.

I think people should be who they are. If someone is a great mother, or a great personal friend to their friends and just a loving person, that's all they should be, if that's what they want to be, 'cause it's genuine.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

I have tried to be more relatable, but I won't be relatable to everybody.

I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.

I think that, as artists, all we can do is be who we are. I think that if we do that, then we're automatically not anyone else.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.

For each person, they live their life and their truth and how it works for them, and that's just kind of how it works for me. I'm not good at doing whatever the other way is - it wouldn't work for me.

We allow each other so little enjoyment or even tolerance for our individualities, our uniquenesses, and yet to me, that's what it's all about.

Keep your mind open about what you want to do and be true to yourself. So many people are governed by what's 'in' or copy something that someone else has done.

Just be who you are and respect everyone you meet.

2020 for me is a really big year of realness and authenticity and just being who I am.

I've always done things that were true to me.

I would classify myself as an individual. That's what I try to stay true with - being myself, 100 percent.

I would love for 'Hedwig' to be in every tiny shopping mall so every freakish kid like I was can have a broadening experience.

First and foremost, I just have to be myself.

Hip-hop has always been about keeping it authentic and being authentically you. That is what I try to do in my music and when I speak about the Bible.

I think as long as you're authentic, people will relate to that.