Cindy Crawford Quotes

I look completely different from how I did in 'Sinbad,' and it's nice to be myself.

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

I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

What do I see when I look in the mirror? One handsome man. No, I see the same person I have seen for the last 27 years: the person I believed I could be when I was a child, the person I have inspired and dreamed to be all my life, and that's the person I have seen, from being that big to as big as the roof - the same guy.

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

I just felt that I was going to fall apart if I didn't learn to be myself.

Everyone always said, 'When you're 10, you'll want to be Elizabeth, or when you're in college.' And every time, I was was just like, 'No, I'm Beanie. That's who I am.' So I love my name because I think it really suits me.

I know what my identity is.

I think realising that you're individual and unique is really amazing.

It took a while to grow the confidence to say, 'This is who I am, take it or leave it.'

I felt more comfortable playing other people than being myself, when I was a kid. And then, the tables turned. Through my performances, I've become more comfortable with who I am, and then I just bring more of myself into the people that I play.

I'm at a place in my life right now where I'm very happy, very content. I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

It's easy to forget who you are.

So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

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.

We all need a firm sense of identity.

I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.

I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.