Cynthia Ozick Quotes

Be that self which one truly is.

I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.

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.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

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

When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you... Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best.

At one moment, I thought that if I didn't do a picture in a certain way, then it wasn't a 'Mario Testino Picture.' And I've realized that Mario Testino is everything, Mario Testino is whatever he feels like being, because it always ends up looking like me, whatever I do.

My true nature, I believe, is writing.

You blows who you is.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.

I could never deny myself bein' an artist.

I've spent most of my life writing and developing everything that I've wanted to be in - which is why I started writing in the first place.

You're lucky if you find something that makes you feel like yourself; that's the one time that you feel like you know who you are. Most people are struggling to find that out all the time.

Everything I do is true to the person I am. To me, there's not too much distinction between Elias and my former name.

To me, being real is being yourself. You know, that's whether you're a pop artist or whatever.

There's no point in me being something other than me.

I feel like the 'Supernova' record, those songs are very me. It's a more honest representation of me than any record I have made prior to that.

It's a gift that we get to do the work that we do to call ourselves artists.

I want people to see just who I am.