Bettie Page Quotes

I don't try to be anything. I just want to play my game.

I'm just myself. That's the best way to put it.

I wasn't trying to be anything. I was just myself.

I'm no missionary, and I can't wear any armor, either. I just gotta be the way I am.

If I'm the biggest artist in the world, cool, but I want to just be me.

I believe in just being yourself, and the whole kit and caboodle comes with it.

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

I don't really have a strategy other than to just be myself.

I don't have to hide or be somebody I'm not. I don't have to compromise. I can just be myself.

It's important just to be yourself. And probably stay out of trouble.

I suppose I've always been attracted to this sort of outsider in general - in literature, in music, politics, whatever - and to the person that is able to be relentlessly themselves. I don't think that I have that quality, that strength of mind.

I just try to be myself and not conform to something I'm not and just continue doing what I do. I just try not to think about the fact that I'm an inspiration for people.

To express yourself as you are, without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, is the most important thing.

I think there are a lot of people who are afraid to be who they are, and if I have to sacrifice a little bit of fame and a little bit of success because I'm being 100 percent truthful with who I am, hopefully that will create a paved way for someone else.

Seriously, I don't think there's any right way to do anything apart from if you're just being you; then it's a sincere situation.

I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I've always wanted to stay true to myself, and I've managed to do that. People have to accept that.

Isn't it nice not to have to compartmentalize yourself?

I try to be authentically who I am.

I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don't do anything that outlandish anyway.

I decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make up their minds about me whatever I do or say, but at least I know I am being true to myself.

Oh! Isn't it jolly To cast away folly And cut all one's clothes a peg shorter (A good many pegs) And rejoice in one's legs Like a free-minded Albion's daughter.

It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you're different than anyone else.

I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.

I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don't care if they think I'm like someone else because I know I'm not - I'm a total weirdo. I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. I'm just trying to sell music and get on with my real life.

A lot of people have their own idea of how you need to conduct yourself. But I think it's important to be spontaneous and honest, because what's frightening in the process of being correct is that you might lose yourself.