Victoria Abril Quotes

Don't look at someone else and want to be them. Search within yourself and find out who you are and be someone positive.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

Kids will tell me 'oh I want to be like you when I grow up,' you know. I just thought 'nah, don't be like me, be like you,' because first of all they don't really know me but second of all I understand what they're trying to say but I just let them know - be like you.

The way I move, the way I think, the way I handle myself - it might be by accident, but it's who I am, and I've just learned to own that.

I think that was the biggest learning lesson for me. I realized I can't be anything for anyone else if I'm not the best me for me. Now I just hope to kind of be that message for young girls to focus on yourself first always. Young people, I should say.

There's so much shame involved in not being like everyone else. But I learned that the things that made me unique were good. Dealing with problems can be awful. But in the end I got positive results. I don't think I would have been a writer if I didn't have anxiety.

We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it's really you're individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people.

I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.

I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?

I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.

I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.

A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had is a waste of precious energy. Because we are all unique, what makes another happy may do the opposite for you. That's why advice is nice but often disappointing when heeded.

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

I am definitely not like the hottest young actress, the most beautiful or whatever. I have my own thing going.

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine!

You should never give up your inner self.

It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.

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

We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.

I don't need to be better than anybody or worse than anybody to feel better about myself. I just need to stick on my own path and stay in the moment as best I can.