Lzzy Hale Quotes

The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked... that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

What if everything I thought was wrong with me was actually right with me? You have to have the courage to show who you are to the world.

I'm not hiding who I am anymore - not pretending I'm something I'm not.

I have faced up to what I am.

When I started playing music, I was more of a character. Now I'm just me with a cool outfit on. I'm more comfortable being myself.

All I'm trying to do is be me.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

On the first album I was saying, that's just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I'm afraid of something? No. I'm just going to be myself.

Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.

For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.

You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.

I've learned that maybe sometimes it's better to show people who you are and what you are thinking about. That way, you can be more relaxed with yourself.

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.

I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable. It just has to be there.

I just like talking, and I'm really truthful. Sometimes things come out of my mouth, and I think, 'Maybe I shouldn't have said that,' but at the end of the day, I am who I am! When I'm not acting, I'm going to be fully Hayley Hasselhoff, and that's what you're going to get. And I enjoy that.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

Speaking the truth gets a little easier each time you do it.

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

Doing social media is a way of not giving in to this inclination to hiding. But instead, I'm teaching myself to feel comfortable about being open.