Benjamin Clementine Quotes

There is your persona and then there's the real you. I was living inside my persona too much.

In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

Perhaps we've got so involved in the false selves we project on social media that we've forgotten that our real selves, our private selves, are different, are worth saving.

It's such a horrible feeling to not be honest to who you are.

Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

Be who you are. Otherwise, you end up committing suicide. You end up marrying people when you shouldn't be marrying them and having terrible, secret lives.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.

Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

Many introverts feel there's something wrong with them, and try to pass as extroverts. But whenever you try to pass as something you're not, you lose a part of yourself along the way. You especially lose a sense of how to spend your time.

Keep your sense of self; don't get caught up in what people want you to be.

I am not afraid if people think Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' is who I am - my friends and family know who I am.

I try to live my life as honestly as I can, and the last thing I want is to pretend to be something I'm not. To pretend to myself I am a sex symbol would somehow be dishonest. I'd feel, in my heart, that I were behaving artificially and that's the last thing I want to do.

You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

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

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think - or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don't think I will ever be anything other than that.