Dawn French Quotes

I am fascinated by that notion of people are never as they seem. And that doesn't make them good or bad. It's just we don't ever really show ourselves if we don't have to.

Behind my door at home, that's when I'm relaxed, and that's when I can allow the emotions or whatever - to feel just what I want to feel - so a lot of people don't know me in that respect. I need a bit of space, a bit of a place to come home to and not have to pretend or perform anymore, where I'm just myself.

In my job, I am portrayed as a misfit, a grandiose high fashion lady or an unearthly creature. At home, it's important I can look in the mirror, strip away the disguise and be comfortable with who stares back.

So many people hide inside their clothes.

The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home.

Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses.

I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

My image is me. I talk for myself. I didn't become this person others wanted me to be.

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

I am always who I am, and anyone who's known me forever will tell you that. I guess there's enough of a child in me that that's important.

I'm totally myself.

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.

Everyone has a private self and a public self.

If you lose who you are, what do you have?

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I am.

There's a deep piece of me that wants to be very personal and not share everything with everybody and not put it out there.

By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

Everybody has many people inside of them; I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first, in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want. It gets really interesting when this technique fails, and other levels are revealed.