Darci Lynne Farmer Quotes

I felt more comfortable playing other people than being myself, when I was a kid. And then, the tables turned. Through my performances, I've become more comfortable with who I am, and then I just bring more of myself into the people that I play.

At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.

Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school.

We don't think of them as acting, but we take on certain characteristics based on where we function, and those relationships draw out aspects of who we are as people. And that's what acting is. Different parts draw out different parts of your nature.

There's my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energised and fun.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

At Morehouse, I found myself and my voice, and I didn't want to lose that at Yale.

When I started wrestling and then turned into the Evil Queen, I created this character who I needed in my personal life. This woman who is strong, intelligent, confident, empowering. That's what I needed in my personal life.

The people who watch you on the court often don't know you as an actual person - a human being.

Wrestling is just an extension of who I am.

I am not confident unless I am playing someone else.

When I was younger I didn't want to hang around with anyone. But now I feel so comfortable. I convey my thoughts, my emotions, I can communicate better, I have a better understanding of the world. Now I have a sense of purpose. It makes me think a lot more about things.

The great thing about being a woman is the power of reinvention.

Winnie Harlow is my alter ego like how Beyonce refers to her stage name as Sasha Fierce.

I am a different person in front of the camera; it comes as easy to me as breathing does.

Only recently have I realized that being different is not something you want to hide or squelch or suppress.

I just try to be who I am.

I have learned, as I get older, just to be who I am.

I do my best to be true to who I am.

I can't do anything else apart from be myself.

It's not as if you can act bigger to fit the surroundings or the budget more. Whatever, it just doesn't work that way.

I had an upbringing in which I was allowed to be free and use my mind. My parents only helped me to be myself. It was only in my teenage years that I met people who made me start having doubts about who I was. They said you shouldn't be confident, you shouldn't be strong. It is only when you meet those other people that you lose confidence.