Gertrude Atherton Quotes

I know the person I am, and I know the person I can be.

You cannot force somebody to be a different person.

I think, personally, it's our flaws that define us to us - or maybe it's just me.

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 understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

Learn what you are and be such.

As a human being, I'm work in process.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.

What I use when I'm acting comes from what I learn about myself.

I want to continue to show what I'm all about.

My self encompasses a lot of different things.

it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.

Don't try to change people. It won't work, and they will end up resenting you. Only God can change people!

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

My personality doesn't interest me.

What you are comes to you.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.