Patti LuPone Quotes

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 there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

As time goes by people will see who I am for who I am.

I just want girls to realize, everybody's born a way for a reason, and you are who you are. You should just be yourself at all times. The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

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.

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

I love my complexion, but like so many of us, in the early years at primary school, I grew up thinking that my dark skin wasn't a great thing. I've found freedom in music and songwriting, which has given me a freedom in how I present myself. I'm glad I've got makeup to celebrate that with.

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

I was very insecure growing up, and even though I'm not that girl anymore, I think that the passion, that not feeling pretty and being insecure, is where my soul came from. And from early childhood, I let it free onstage.

Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.

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 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.

There is a beauty and a special quality in being what I am. I know it, and I've learned how to use it.

When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken.

I can't do anything else apart from be myself.

Quite often, I will do something and think, 'Oh, no, she looks a little too much like me.' I have tried to learn not to be afraid of that when that happens. I am not trying to obliterate myself and completely hide within the images like I used to.

Hima is Hima only. I haven't changed.

I need to just be myself, express myself.

Embrace your colour, heritage, whatever you want, but don't let it confine you. Just live without labels.

As a kid, I spent a lot of my mental energy hiding who I was and attempting to fit in.

The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.

A lot of the work I've done has been about being very raw and open with your emotions.

I embrace who I am. I just want my child to do the same thing.

Maybe some people look at me and just see a footballer, or a black footballer. But I am much more than this. I tell my best friends all the time, 'If you look at me as a footballer, and not as Little Kouli, and not as your friend, then I have failed in life.'

As I grew in confidence, I was able to come out and say that I'm a musician.