Michael Rapaport Quotes

I've never considered myself cool, and I don't think I ever will be. Honestly, it's better that way. It's much less pressure.

If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.

People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.

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

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.

I've always been very conscious of who I am.

If I am not grotesque, I am nothing.

I'm really not sure what people think or expect me to be, but I am surprised when people say, 'You're not supposed to be like that... ' I'm not exactly sure what 'that' is, so I choose to take it as a compliment.

I just didn't believe I was like everybody else. I thought I was unique.

I don't want everybody to just see the baseball side of me.

I'm not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I'm seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

You don't have to look like a warrior in every role.

I just don't want to give anybody a reason to label me as something I'm not.

When someone tells me that I'm not real, I say to them, 'Well, what about me isn't real?' I have not changed my figure. This is who I am.

This is not me, WWE doesn't define who Ashley is.

I've been working on the way my originality, my body, my face, my original form is perceived by me.

I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn't trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn't think of myself as liberated, and I don't believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn't know any other way to be, or any other way to live.

I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

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

Beauty is present in all creation, but the danger lies in the fact that we allow ourselves to be influenced by what people think. We deny our own beauty because others can't or won't recognize it. We try to imitate what we see around us. We try to be what other people think of as 'pretty' & little by little, our soul fades. We forget the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

I just want to be who I am. I think all women go through the belief that they need to be superwoman - that to be successful in any way, and I don't necessarily mean in business or anything, but just to be a successful person, you have to be superwoman.

I tried to assimilate and mix myself in with everybody, but I still stood out because of my mannerisms, the way I spoke, my interests, the way I walked, all those things that make us stand out in a crowd. Then I got to a point where I stopped caring, because people were calling me names no matter what, so I thought I might as well just do what I wanted to do.

it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.

You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care.

I think what people see in me is one slice of who I am. It does permeate my life in the sense that I don't like to be told what to do, or how to be, or how I can do it. But I'm probably a lot tamer than people would expect.