Jackie Evancho Quotes

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

I think, personally, it's our flaws that define us to us - or maybe it's just me.

Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

It feels weird to say there's more to me than that, like I'm being overdramatic, and a tear rolls down my cheek. But, no - I do like I feel like there's more to me than just baseball.

My self encompasses a lot of different things.

I rejected the word humorist for a long time because I thought that it meant you had, like, a cardigan sweater with patches on the elbows, but now I'm old and I do. I grew into that word. I think at heart, all this time, I've been a diarist. I'm not ashamed of it.

Each woman needs to know herself and think that the clothes are here to make her more beautiful, because the person is more important than the clothes.

I guess what I know now that I definitely didn't know as a child, is that being truest to yourself is the greatest weapon in the war to achieve. That sounds really negative, but in conquering or achieving something. I think, as a child, I thought I had to be somebody else.

You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.