Sarah Jessica Parker Quotes

I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

Everybody is in a hurry to decode you in a certain way, and then they expect you to adhere to their definition. How can they possibly do that when you yourself are finding it hard to discover yourself?

Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won't work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.

I had been in a place where I was letting too many people dictate who I should be and what I should be, and I was trying to make everybody happy to the point where it was just killing me. I'd completely lost myself. It's kind of funny now that people think I've completely changed myself for Marilyn Manson, when this is actually the first time in my life that I took a stand and said, "This is who I am and this is who I've always wanted to be, and I'm finally with somebody who lets me be who I want to be."

Unhappiness comes when you try to be like everyone else rather than embracing the unique person that you are.

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

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

Apparently God makes us all different. Some of us are happy to respond to His individual touch on our lives by remaining individuals, and others of us are intimidated or frightened into trying to become like each other so that we have company, so that we don't feel so lonely.

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

You have ideas planted in your head, thoughts you never had before, that tell you how you have to act, how you have to dress and who you have to be. I have been trying to push back, to be authentic, to follow my heart, but it can be hard.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

You should not really entertaining anyone else, but trying to be yourself, because there are already more good books than you or I could ever read in our lifetime.

I want an identity outside of my work.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.

It's always been a struggle to differentiate myself, but I like my parents. I enjoy doing events with them, and I don't feel I should purposely avoid something just for the sake of being different.

Everyone is being told by society to talk this way, to dress that way, to be this person or to be that person, and it's so important to just maintain a sense of self.