John Grant Quotes

So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

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.

You can't become what you aren't, or you will start feeling awful about yourself.

It's so hard to know where you belong, ever. You have to be yourself and let yourself fall wherever you fall.

I don't want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

It's easy to forget who you are.

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

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.

As time goes by people will see who I am for who I am.

I just am who I am.

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.

I've realised I can be happy.

What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think - or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

I just want to be who I am, as I am.

Be yourself. I had this three-week period where I wore this straw fedora. I thought it was what chicks wanted. And then it dawned on me that I was trying to be something that I wasn't, so I took the fedora off. So be yourself.

I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.

Just be what you are. And I try to be my best self and be what I am and knowing what I am and be satisfied with that. And if people don't know it, maybe they'll eventually know it.

Being down makes you think who you are.