Cody Rhodes Quotes

I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's even possible. I didn't realize so many people actually think I'm trying to be like my dad. I read comments like 'She's no Elvis.' I'm not trying to be. I never set out to be.

Ronald Reagan was the best Ronald Reagan ever, and Ronald Reagan was a cool guy. You're not Ronald Reagan. You can't run as him; you can't relive his career. You can't just have somebody else's career. You have to be you.

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

Don't imitate. If you want to know who you are, please avoid imitation, that's a way of avoiding knowing yourself.

When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself.

I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.

I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.

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

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

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

There are so many voices on YouTube, and there are incredible creators that are popular for a reason. And although it's great to be inspired by them, nobody is going to subscribe to a second-rate version of them. It's really important to put your best foot forward and be your best self because you will always be the number one version of you.

I can't be anybody but myself.

We're all going to keep telling love stories, we're all going to tell hero stories. It's all a question of what your own thumbprint, your own DNA, is, and what it brings to the table that makes it unique.

My dad is so unique in what he does. It's not like I'm taking a torch from him and doing his thing. I hope I've carried from him a little bit of a sense of irony, a little bit of a wink.

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

I don't think I have a signature.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.

I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself.

I think it is very important in this business to be an individual.

From a young age, I wanted to differentiate myself from my older siblings.

You want to stake your own claim. You don't want to be called a copycat.