Gabourey Sidibe Quotes

I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.

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 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.

That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are.

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

I think I have femininity, I have masculinity, but I get to use all of Jeffrey, and that's very powerful. And this is what I always thought when I went down in my little basement in San Francisco, where I grew up, and daydreamed about being an actor: It felt like this. This is what it felt like.

I'm undeniably myself, and I think realizing that is the way to live life.

I don't sing very loud, which some people have given me trouble about, but we all have to figure out what our voices are, embrace that.

What I've come up with is that I just need to be me.

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

Everyone always said, 'When you're 10, you'll want to be Elizabeth, or when you're in college.' And every time, I was was just like, 'No, I'm Beanie. That's who I am.' So I love my name because I think it really suits me.

People who know me know that I'm the last person on earth that wants to be somebody else.

I just need to be me.

I feel like I've just got to be me and let my play speak for itself.

When youth live in fear of becoming who they are, as adults, they can't become the creative beings that we are meant to be on this planet.

My music just stands for being true to who you are.

What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.

The thing is not to follow a pattern. Follow your own pattern of feeling and thought. The thing is to accept your own life and not try to live someone else's life. Look, the thumbprint is not like any other, and the thumbprint is what you must go by.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

If you are just yourself, that's when people start gravitating towards you because nobody else can be you except you. Be authentic, don't give up, and start today.

(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people.

Be yourself. Because if people don't like you as you are, they're not going to like you as somebody you're trying to be.

This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.

You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.