Juliette Lewis Quotes

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

I just thought I‘d never look good in what everybody else wore. So there’s no point trying. You just have to do what suits you, and it doesn’t matter if you don’t look like everybody else. Be you. That’s our gift and we’ve got to celebrate that, but it does take ages. I was wracked with self-doubt for years. I get spasms of it even now – I’m not indelibly self-confident.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

I'm one Pia Zadora, the same way all the time. That's why I'm happy. It took me a long time to get to the point where could be myself all the time.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

I just want girls to realize, everybody's born a way for a reason, and you are who you are. You should just be yourself at all times. The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

I just am who I am.

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.

You should wear what you want to wear and not worry about trying to paint yourself in a certain image because that self-awareness is what's going to help you become a more independent and more interesting and healthier adult.

There's something to be said for embracing who you are.

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!

The ideas I'm working with are ideas I'm committed to. I don't know how to soft-shoe them. I don't know how to make them more palpable. I just never knew how to be one of those girls. I wish I knew how to be that sometimes, but I don't know how to be that way.

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

There's no better time than now to be who you are.

I feel like I've been known for having long black hair, so when I took all my extensions out and cut my own hair, it was the most freeing thing, I think, I've ever done. That was my 21st year: I cut my hair, I was doing Broadway; I was living in New York, and I was really having a moment of becoming my individual self, and it was amazing.

It's all about, no matter where you come from, that you can be who you want to be and achieve what you want to achieve. I want people to learn to love who they are. Because that's the hardest thing in life, being able to see yourself the way other people see you.

I truly believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

I've come out of myself as a person at Chelsea and expressed myself on and off the pitch.

When I started playing music, I was more of a character. Now I'm just me with a cool outfit on. I'm more comfortable being myself.

I believe in just being yourself, and the whole kit and caboodle comes with it.

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

I'm able to go out there, and I'm really able to be, like, unabashedly myself. And I want somebody who's young, who's struggling, who's not sure if it's OK if they are themselves to know that it's OK.

Honestly, it's really fun to be yourself. It's really fun to be me.