Justin Hayward Quotes

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you're doing. If you're not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper.

Be true to yourself, stay focused and stay you, take advice from other folks, use what you can, but never mind what is not for you. For the most part, trust yourself and believe in what you are doing.

All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.

Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.

Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.

I am going to be myself. To me, that is going to take care of the rest.

I don't follow what is in fashion now; I just listen to myself and what I like... I wait for the right occasion or see how I feel each day.

You can't think about what other people think. You just can't. It's stupid. You've got to look inside yourself.

Do what you're happy with and not what you think whoever else is going to tell you about you 'acting a color.' You don't act at all. You just do what you think is best.

So remember these two things: you are talented and you are original. Be sure of that. I say this because self-trust is one of the very most important things in writing.

I think it's really easy to just get caught up in what everyone else is doing, so I think the most important thing to remember is to be really strong in your own shoes. That is the main thing for me. The one thing that kind of gets in my way sometimes is when I'm a little too aware of everybody else.

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.

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 am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what feels right to me. To act in a more carnal way. That's my challenge.

If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.

Don't try to be like me. Try to be like yourself. Try to be very good at being yourself.

I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.

No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you do. I can only do what Mary J. Blige can do, so that relaxes me right there, and it gets me out of the competition and that whole thing.

All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.

The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.