Blake Lively Quotes

I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

You start comparing yourself to other people, you end up trying to be that person. You've got to be your own person, do it your own way. You can be motivated by somebody, but you don't have to take after them.

Don't shrink to meet the expectations of others, grow to become the person you want to be.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

I don't really compare myself to anyone. Growing up, sure you have your favorite players or guys you try to emulate, but I'm just trying to be the best me I can be.

You can't live in someone else's shoes; you've got to branch out and fill your own shoes.

I learned a lot from other people, and was inspired by what they did, but I didn't copy anyone. I put many different blocks together to become what I am. I don't know if that would have happened if everything was handed to me on a plate.

I can't be Martin O'Neill; I can't be any of the other coaches - I have to make my own way.

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.

If you look at me as a role model, I agree with it. If you look at me as an idol, I don't because an idol for me is someone that you want to replicate. You want to be them and I don't wish that on anyone to lose what they have personally, because that's when your spark is lost.

Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.

Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide us on our own particular journeys.

When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself.

When you're young, you obviously have people you look up to. People like Andrew Oldham and Nile Rodgers inspired me then, and they inspire me now. But at some point, you start to try to be the best you can be and you're not copying anybody else. I'm just doing it in public, and my work needs to reflect that as well.

I think people kind of come in who they are, and it sort of doesn't even matter who their parents are - it can affect you a little bit, and you can be guided and shaped.

Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been helpful to others. Perhaps they will serve as suggestions to stimulate your own thinking until you know what it is that will fulfill you, will help you to find out what you want to do with your life.

It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.

When you leave here today and commence the next stage of your life, you can follow someone else's script, try to make choices that will make other people happy, avoid discomfort, do what is expected, and copy the status quo. Or you can look at all that you have accomplished today and use it as fuel to venture forth and write your own story. If you do, amazing things will take shape.

I just try to be myself and not conform to something I'm not and just continue doing what I do. I just try not to think about the fact that I'm an inspiration for people.

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.