Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

I can't be anybody but myself.

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

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

Don't be imitators. The mind is an imitator, because it is easier to play the game of imitation than to become authentically true. Many ideas have been given to you: become like a Buddha, become like Jesus. become like Krishna - as if you have to become everybody else EXCEPT yourself. As if God is only against you. He's for Krishna, for Christ, for Mahavir, for Buddha - only against you. Then why does He create you? Then He seems simply foolish. Why does He go on creating you? If He's interested in Buddha, Hc can create Buddhas. Why you?

Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.

I try to be me to the utmost.

The best thing you've got going for you is individuality.

I don't want to be somebody else.

I don't want to be the next anyone. I'm just me.

I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else-that would be fatal.

The best thing an actor can bring to a role is himself - that's no secret.

It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you're different than anyone else.

I'm not trying to be anyone else.

I'm not trying to be different. To me, I'm just being myself.

To me, being real is being yourself. You know, that's whether you're a pop artist or whatever.

I always have to be me.

I ran out of any type of persona. I just had to be me.

At the end of the day, l just want to be myself. I don't set out to be like anyone else.

I want to be me - and people know it's me. I don't want: 'He's trying to act like Kobe' or 'His answers are like something Kobe would've said.' Nah. If it's me, I'm going to say it.

Everyone is different, and I would rather be disliked for who I am than liked for who I am not.

Your individuality is the most valuable thing you have.

Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?

You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style.

No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.