Mark Lanegan Quotes

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

More than anything, acting helped me discover who I'm not. I've learned that I'm a girly girl, but not a prissy girl.

Find your voice and don't be afraid to explore it.

I gotta be who I am now. How do you not, right?

I've always thought of myself as a strong person. However, it's taken me a while to fully find my voice.

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

You have to be someone.

I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

I'm still very much Kate.

Knowing yourself and expressing it is hip. I think knowing yourself is the real journey, for me anyway.

The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

Trying to give an individual a voice has always kind of been my mission in my life. As an actor, I've always seen that was something that needed to be done. You need to find that voice inside of you so that you can stand up and be who you really are.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

I think you have to ask questions that are scary to ask, and you cannot apologize for that, and you cannot worry what anyone else thinks about your journey.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

I remember a distinct moment when it was my junior year of college, and the content I was making was changing and not really myself, and I tried to switch back to just putting me out there. I'm happy that happened really early in my career, because that was before I started doing podcasts or writing.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

I have faced up to what I am.

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!

Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.