Barbara Cook Quotes

'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.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

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

Before, I had an idea of what I thought I needed to be, and I'm realizing more and more that being yourself is the best thing.

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

The only way we’ll ever know what it’s like to be you is if you work your best at being you as often as you can, and keep reminding yourself: That’s where home is.

If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.

When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself.

I’ve tried being other people and myself suits me the best.

I've learned that all you can be in this world is you. No matter how much you mess with yourself, with surgery or you know, clothes or cut your hair differently or how much you wish and pray and dream that you're gonna wake up as someone else, it's never gonna happen. You have one life and one opportunity, and all you can be is the best you.

It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

Who would you be but who you are?

Do we dare be ourselves? That is the question that counts.

Please, please, PLEASE be yourself. If you catch yourself not, take a step back.

Remember it's OK to be yourself.

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?

You've always made the mistake of being yourself.

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

You should not really entertaining anyone else, but trying to be yourself, because there are already more good books than you or I could ever read in our lifetime.

You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

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

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.

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.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.