Paula Pell Quotes

The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.

I love my hair. When I was young it had weird kinks and cowlicks in it, but I just grew into it. You grow into a lot of things.

I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.

If just one person, one child who is made to feel isolated, looks at me and sees that it is okay to be your own person and walk down your own path, then everything I have ever gone through will be worth it.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

I think when I was younger, I strived for perfection. And now I strive for my imperfections because I think they're more interesting.

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

Beauty can grow as a whole, since you shouldn't copy other people.

As you get older, whatever your struggles may be - how you sound, how you look, how you dress - you grow into yourself a little bit more. You end up realizing the world wants you and not a carbon copy of six other people.

The best way to be more like me is to be more like you.

Be grateful for your journey because it is yours alone.

I think my very best piece of advice is be yourself.

I was definitely considered different growing up. I learned that being me was all right because my family celebrated those differences.

Strong brows is what I have, and I embrace them.

Through my unique style of playing, I want to prove that you don't have to conform to be accepted. The greatest value comes from loving yourself for who you are.

I am what I am.

I'm happier in my thirties. I feel clearer about who I am and less apologetic about it, and more accepting of my limitations and also more aware of the ways in which I'm capable.

You can't have self-pity. At some point, you have to say, 'These are the cards I've been dealt, and I'm going to play them.'

Everyone should just be exactly who they are.

I have to be true to myself, and that's what I know for sure. I can't try to be anybody else.

I think the most radical thing you can do is be yourself.

There's no reason trying to fit in: Just be you. That was the biggest thing for me, just being me, and finding what works for me.

Just be authentic and be you.

Not that everybody needs to be Georges St-Pierre, but it would be cool if everybody was just themselves.

I wouldn't change myself for anybody. I am who I am; people accept me, or they don't. I have my strengths and my weaknesses, which I can try to improve upon, of course. I'm still not the finished product.