Matt Nagy Quotes

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

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'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

It's like, you can know you want to live your life by being yourself, but how do you actually do that? That can be a whole lifelong journey.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

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

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

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 want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

I want to challenge people to find out who they are.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

Learn what you are and be such.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

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

No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.

Figure out who you are.

I'm a different athlete, I'm a different person.