Elle Fanning Quotes

Never be ashamed of what or how you feel... just be honest.

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

I know that I'm an actor and I guess I could kind of put on an act, but it takes so much more time to be someone you are not. I feel so much better just being comfortable with myself and hopefully girls will accept that.

I want people to see that I'm a real person, I overreact, I cry, I'm emotional. If I come across as perfect and in control, that wouldn't be who I really am.

I'm not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I'm going to say how I feel.

I feel what I feel. If I wanna cry, I'm gonna cry - regardless of who watches me.

I don't try to be someone I'm not.

We don't wake up happy and looking absolutely perfect and feeling amazing every day, you know? We're only human. So I think, with me, I'm not really scared to let people see that - because it's real.

When you're not happy, you don't need to fake your emotions.

There's not much that I'm closed off about, and the universe gave me all that so I could help people feel like they don't have to be something they're not or feel like they have to fake happy. There's nothing worse than being fake happy.

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

Seriously, I don't think there's any right way to do anything apart from if you're just being you; then it's a sincere situation.

Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.

I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.

If you're not enjoying yourself, you can't really look as if you are.

Nothing's wrong with honest emotion.

The only way you can be happy is if you be completely yourself. You have to be you. Don't be what you think you should be.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.

Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something.

I'm not fake, and I don't want to mislead people about who I am. I can be serious, too, and I cry a lot. It's just who I am.

I reserve the right to be a mess and completely unlikable.

I don't try to be somebody I'm not.

I am who I am. I don't try to be something I'm not.

If I put on a T-shirt that says 'YAAAS,' I want to mean it.