Clea Duvall Quotes

My mom has raised me saying, "Always be yourself." So to be able to play a character that verifies just that, is such a thrill and adventure for me.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

I play roles, but when I'm off stage, I always try to be myself.

For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional.

You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

I've spent twenty-eight years doing what everyone around me expected me to do...being what everyone around me has expected me to be. And it's horrid to be someone else's vision of yourself.

You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you aren't. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature. You still won't be perfect, but success isn't about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.

The disappearance of your person is not your disappearance, remember; on the contrary, it is your appearance. As your person disappears, your personality falls away; your individuality, your individual arises. To have a personality is hypocrisy. To be an individual is your birthright.

It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

I guess what I know now that I definitely didn't know as a child, is that being truest to yourself is the greatest weapon in the war to achieve. That sounds really negative, but in conquering or achieving something. I think, as a child, I thought I had to be somebody else.

She used to say 'You can be whoever you want, even yourself'.... Yeah, I show up knowin exactly who I was and never leave as myself

You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!

Don't be imitators. The mind is an imitator, because it is easier to play the game of imitation than to become authentically true. Many ideas have been given to you: become like a Buddha, become like Jesus. become like Krishna - as if you have to become everybody else EXCEPT yourself. As if God is only against you. He's for Krishna, for Christ, for Mahavir, for Buddha - only against you. Then why does He create you? Then He seems simply foolish. Why does He go on creating you? If He's interested in Buddha, Hc can create Buddhas. Why you?

You've always made the mistake of being yourself.

You have to always remember to be yourself.

Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.

I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.

I am who I am. I'm unique. I'm my own self.

You're always just going to be who you are.

I ran out of any type of persona. I just had to be me.

You have to be yourself.

I want to continue to show what I'm all about.

The way I move, the way I think, the way I handle myself - it might be by accident, but it's who I am, and I've just learned to own that.

Swavey is the movement. Three words... It's Unique, it's true, and it's yourself. It's a very unique thing: it's true to yourself, and it's all about you just being yourself.

Before, I had an idea of what I thought I needed to be, and I'm realizing more and more that being yourself is the best thing.