Josh Groban Quotes

People often expect me to be something other than what I am.

Don't get me wrong. I want people to know who I am.

I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.

I just don't want to give anybody a reason to label me as something I'm not.

Id rather be seen the way I am now instead of falling over myself walking out of a club.

Some people work hard to be something that they're not, and I don't work at all, I'm just me. And that can bother anybody I'm not working nearly as hard as the other guys, and they don't like it.

We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.

(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people.

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves.

There's a difference between being yourself and being your stereotype.

I'm not like a persona. I'm not a caricature of myself.

We think we need to create ourselves, always doing a paste-up job on our personalities. That is because we're trying to be special rather than real. We're pathetically trying to conform with all the other people trying to do the same.

I’ve tried being other people and myself suits me the best.

People ask me all the time, "What are your influences? Are you trying to do Beckett?" It's like, "No, I'm trying to do me." Whatever that is. I don't know what that is, but that's the basis. I'm trying to be true and I'm trying to be honest.

Most people are other people.

People are expecting me to be a certain way all the time. It's not like if I come in here with a totally different personality and right before the camera starts they see this new character. It confuses everything. Life has a consensus reality to it and if you use that to your advantage it makes it much easier.

You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you're supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

Ultimately, it's not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people's expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.

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.

I want to be able to wake up and feel like, 'Eh, I feel like wearing this!' Or talking to that person. It's so much more work to have to stay in that box to fit in, 'Mean Girls' style.

All of us, although we may have a label attached to us, that's not who we are.

There were absolutely times in my life when I tried to get people to call me Robert.

You don't have to look like a warrior in every role.

I really like 'Wannabe' from Itzy, because being a 'wannabe' means acting different than who you really are.