John Green Quotes

We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

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 feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.

When you become a slave to a public persona and don't feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield, and it shouldn't come at the expense of your self-worth.

I could easily not be the person that people know.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

When I look at myself, I see a person who strangely lacks what I consider the ingredients of a personality.

If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.

I always knew who I was, but everyone else wanted to me to be their 'idea' of the 'right' artist. At times, I even believed them.

You cannot really be too concerned with what people think of you. You're on your own adventure of growth and discovery. So it's not always good to be who people think you are, especially if you subscribe to it as well ... which is easily done, because then you don't have to figure out who you are, you just ask somebody else.

A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people’s evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction.

I don't care what people think of me or for what reason they think of me. I don't feel like I don't know who I am to the degree that I have to change my hair to create a new me.

Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

People often expect me to be something other than what I am.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

You have to find out who you are aside from what the media say you are. If you've become reliant on them for kind of a sense of self, then you're really screwed.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn't investigated. They might find that I don't really exist - that I'm just a hologram.

My image has swallowed me up! I've given so much out to this projected version of myself, but now I have to live up to this character that I don't even associate half the time.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.