Andrew Solomon Quotes

I can't tone it down. I'm being me, and I'm being myself, and I'd be doing myself an injustice, and I'd be doing an injustice to those kids who don't feel like they're comfortable to be themselves.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman... it amazes me still.

I must be allowed to be as I am.

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

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.

Trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would have been like trying to hide Dolly Parton in a string bikini!

I don't want to be somebody else.

I'm always going to be just me.

If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.

I like to be who I am.

I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me.

I am what I am.

When I was younger, I used to try to fit in, but now I'm much more comfortable with just being myself.

I wasn't afraid to be who I am. I didn't think anything was wrong with it.

People try to tell me like that, 'Oh, you shouldn't be proud,' or, 'You're not this,' or, 'You aren't that,' or whatever the hell. I'm just kinda here to say, like, who is anybody else to tell me who I am or what I've gone through or what I haven't gone through?

I can only be myself, and if I have to suffer for that, that's okay, because to pretend to be somebody else - I tried that, it's terrible.

I never had any trouble being myself. Myself was a problem for a lot of people, but I didn't have a problem.

I don't want to be someone else.

I just need to be me.

I am not interested in changing who I am to fit someone else's idea of what a category should be or look like.

I guess I just feel very comfortable with being myself.

Be yourself. And every person is unique.