Jane Hirshfield Quotes

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

I can only be who I am.

I can't not be who I am.

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.

Always be yourself. At the end of the day, that's all you've really got; when you strip everything down, that's all you've got, so always be yourself.

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we're doing. We believe things about ourself.

I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.

In the end I'm the only one who knows me.

I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Christian because of you and I hear you're not a Christian, that's shocking to me.' I don't take these things lightly, but that's who I am. I can't change it.

At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.

I've always been this insane. Isn't that interesting?

I'd rather just be who I am and get the kind of movies that I want or the kind of modeling jobs I want based on who I am, really.

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

I'm no good at acting. I don't want to do that, and I don't need to do that in life.

I am not steeped in all that angst. I'm never going to be Sid Vicious.

Over the course of your life, you realize more and more who you are and how you want to spend your time. And it became clearer and clearer that I was very unhappy as an actress and didn't feel comfortable in my own skin. When I was younger, I thought it was because I wasn't successful enough.

First and foremost, I just have to be myself.

My job is not to be a supermodel.

Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about.

The face staring back at me isn't beautiful but she isn't something that would scare the horses, either.

You're who you think you are, even if you never admit it to yourself or to anyone else. You may be in the worst position to judge, but you're in the best position to know.

To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That's the reason I'm still alive.

I am who I am, and there is nothing I can do about that.