Ira Sachs Quotes

You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are.

People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment - you can truly be yourself.

People are embracing the thing that made them different growing up instead of letting that thing elicit shame.

I am what I am.

I kind of just took everything that people thought was weird about me and used it as a strength.

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

Only recently have I realized that being different is not something you want to hide or squelch or suppress.

You, being yourself, help others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them.

You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like it, you like it, if you don't you don't, you know?

The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.

It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.

I am who I am.

I think that my music is really empowering. I just want people to know - especially young people, but really everyone - that you don't have to be so caught up in what everyone else is thinking. You don't have to be the coolest, most popular person. You can just be you and be vulnerable.

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

Don't try to be like me. Try to be like yourself. Try to be very good at being yourself.

While traveling around the world, I've had the opportunity to work with every living beauty icon. I've learned to appreciate idiosyncrasy. The fact is, there is really no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty.

My customer has her own sense of style and knows herself well. My goal is to help women become the best version of themselves.

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

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.

When I was in school, I got there on the first day and everyone had long, blonde, straight hair, and I had short, dark, curly hair. I immediately felt I didn't fit in and started growing my hair. But I've learned that I'm only happy when I am truly me and feel comfortable and confident in myself.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.