Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.

I truly believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

I think the most radical thing you can do is be yourself.

I think I used Christine, who is my stage character, as an excuse to finally be myself, as if I needed to say, 'Oh this character is going to be the woman I wanted to be.'

One thing I've learned is that the best thing a producer can do is help you be you.

Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

It took a while to grow the confidence to say, 'This is who I am, take it or leave it.'

Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

So, this is to everybody who's ever had a struggle in life being yourself. I think that the most beautiful thing a human being can do is just be who you are inside. So please, everybody, just be yourselves and encourage everyone else to do the same.

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

I felt more comfortable playing other people than being myself, when I was a kid. And then, the tables turned. Through my performances, I've become more comfortable with who I am, and then I just bring more of myself into the people that I play.

I'm 27. I feel like I get it. I'm OK with being sexy if I feel like it. Some days I'm brainy, some days I'm funny, some days I'm sexy, and sometimes, I just want to dance.

I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

I'm one Pia Zadora, the same way all the time. That's why I'm happy. It took me a long time to get to the point where could be myself all the time.

My music is really about people connecting with their identities, even if they aren't Jewish.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

'Cars 2' is about a character learning to be himself. There's times in our lives where people always say, 'Well, you've gotta act differently. You should always be yourself.' That's the emotional core of the story.

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

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 think skating helped me find myself.

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

On the first album I was saying, that's just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I'm afraid of something? No. I'm just going to be myself.