Jonathan Groff Quotes

Always be yourself and rebel against what people tell you should be and be whatever you want to.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.

Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.

When I was 16, I was doing what was popular. If I could go back, I would tell myself to not be afraid to be alone and not to follow others so much.

Find your voice and don't be afraid to explore it.

To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act, and I think more and more people should try it, because it's gotten me a pretty cool life.

It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.

Don't fit in, don't sit still, don't ever try to be less than what you are...

Let's not imitate others.Let's find ourselves and be ourselves.

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

I'm different, and I'm not afraid to be different.

'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 a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.

I'm still very much Kate.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

I think that my music is really empowering. I just want people to know - especially young people, but really everyone - that you don't have to be so caught up in what everyone else is thinking. You don't have to be the coolest, most popular person. You can just be you and be vulnerable.

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.