Melina Kanakaredes Quotes

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.

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

There's no point in me being something other than me.

I think when you start changing things, you're not being yourself.

I've had people say things to me like, 'Don't change.' I don't know how to be anything other than myself.

It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.

You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.

The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that's being yourself.

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.

Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.

If you knew who God made you to be, you'd never want to be anyone else.

Don't be imitators. The mind is an imitator, because it is easier to play the game of imitation than to become authentically true. Many ideas have been given to you: become like a Buddha, become like Jesus. become like Krishna - as if you have to become everybody else EXCEPT yourself. As if God is only against you. He's for Krishna, for Christ, for Mahavir, for Buddha - only against you. Then why does He create you? Then He seems simply foolish. Why does He go on creating you? If He's interested in Buddha, Hc can create Buddhas. Why you?

Never follow anybody else's idea - that is very dangerous because you will become imitative. Always follow your own nature, self-nature; only then will you attain to freedom. It is better to die following one's nature than to live following somebody's else's nature, because that will be a pseudo life. To die following one's nature is beautiful, because that death too will be authentic.

Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.

'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 not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

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.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

I don't want to be somebody else.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.