Robert Henri Quotes

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

And I think I have a distinct voice.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

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

I take a little bit from everybody and add that to my life to make me, me. I wanna be nobody else but Future. When you look at me, I want you to say, 'Future.' The way I talk, the way I dress, there's nobody in the world but me.

I think it is very important in this business to be an individual.

I feel like I have a distinct voice.

Of course, I can't be like Gary Hooper or anyone else because I'm me.

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

While everybody is trying to be different, everybody becomes, obviously, the same, so it's finding what makes you special and then kind of sharing it with the world; it's what makes you a superstar.

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?

I am just like everybody else...because there is nobody like me in the whole world.

There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.

The Babe is one fellow, and I'm another and I could never be exactly like him. I don't try, I just go on as I am in my own right.

With all the things that you could be, you never could learn how to be me.

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.

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

I try to be me to the utmost.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.

I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.

In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not trying to imitate anyone or follow in their footsteps, because I know, Burt Reynolds was just one of the people that told me this, I know how you can only last in this business if you got something special to offer, just by being yourself.

My style is all to myself.