Lana Wood Quotes

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

I'm not perfect. This is how I was raised. If I wasn't in the industry, I'd be the same person.

I am what I am. I don't regret anything.

I'm definitely going to make sure that I just continue to live my life authentically.

If I pretend to myself that I'm different from the way I truly am, I'm going to make choices that won't make me happy.

There will always be a part of me that is dirty and sloppy, but I like that, just like all the other parts of myself.

I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be; someone I can be.

We are all living this dance and it is clearly fraught with making choices. Lots of my choices are bad and that's normal. None of us are attractive at all times. What is attractive to me is authenticity.

In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else.

Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.

But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.

The only person with you all your life is you. Your parents die. Things inside you die — illusions, gushes of personality. Only you can sort yourself out. Yourself may not be all you need, but it’s all you’ve got.

There's something final about saying you were married once. It's like saying you were dead once. It shuts them up.

I don't do anything to try to change people's perceptions of me. I tend to think that's sort of an ego driven thing.

First you have to know who you are. That is the most important thing, as if you don't know who you are you will either get swallowed up or you follow some unsuitable trends and just become a nonentity.

I have never seen myself as leading for others. What's important is that I know who I am. Not completely. But I'm coming around third base.

Please, please, PLEASE be yourself. If you catch yourself not, take a step back.

There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the "sacred" attitude and the acceptance of one's in most self.

...Blessed is anyone who knows who he or she really is and builds a place to live there.

Now that I'm almost forty, I look back at some of the decisions I made when I was younger - decisions that I thought of as courageous, or generous, or otherwise befitting a writer; befitting someone who had taken it as their life's goal to understand the human condition - and I wish I could go back in time and be like, "Hey, you don't actually have to do that - you're allowed to look out for yourself a little bit."

It's not a crime not to know yourself. It's not a crime to send life away. It's just a shame.

You can't really change somebody completely, deep inside your nature. But I think what I did was admit to myself what kind of a person I was, and sort of get into the idea that that's who I was. And I think preserving that part of myself really helps me make movies.