Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

I think when you start changing things, you're not being yourself.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

What I'd like to get across is try your best to be yourself. I realize there are those who are much further along than you are; there are stars, but learn to be who you are and to play yourself. Be confident in that fact.

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

Learn what you are and be such.

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice.

My philosophy is to be me.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.

If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.

Be that self which one truly is.

I think that's one of the things that's missing in a lot of people's lives. That's finding out what works for you and doing that.

I don't want to be anyone but me, but as a versatile as possible.

Do stuff that is true to your own experiences.

The creative process has been a little bit of an experience, really - to try and make that work for me. The only way I know how to do that is just to remain genuine, humble, and true to everything I know already in my life.

The camera doesn't make you a better person, it doesn't even change the person that you are, it just magnifies who you are.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.