Lindy Booth Quotes

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.

Having to stake out your identity and have people question whether or not you're being yourself was a tension that I could relate to.

And I'll see your true colors shining through I see your true colors and that's why I love you so don't be afraid to let them show your true colors, true colors are beautiful like a RAINBOW.

They tell me what to wear, how to look, what I should say, how I should be. Until recently I had given into that pressure, I lost sight of who I was. I listened to opinions of people and I tried to change who I am because I thought others would accept me for it. And I realized I don't know how to be anything but myself.

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves.

Life may more than once call upon you to prove Who You Are by demonstrating an aspect of Who You Are Not.

We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

You have ideas planted in your head, thoughts you never had before, that tell you how you have to act, how you have to dress and who you have to be. I have been trying to push back, to be authentic, to follow my heart, but it can be hard.

Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

Especially as an artist, the creative freedom we have makes us who we are. We're human beings-we're gonna mess up sometimes. I definitely feel like people should continue being who they are. As long as you're staying true to who you are, that's super important.

My music just stands for being true to who you are.

For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional.

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

The thing is not to follow a pattern. Follow your own pattern of feeling and thought. The thing is to accept your own life and not try to live someone else's life. Look, the thumbprint is not like any other, and the thumbprint is what you must go by.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

I feel like I never get to play any version of myself or get to be a normal person.

To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

But 40 told me to do me and don't listen to anybody that knew me. Cause to have known me would mean that there's a new me and if you think I've changed, then the slightest could have fooled me.

It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.

Your own voice is the voice that carries you through life the best.

I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.

It is finally when you let go of what people expect you to be and people's perceptions of you that you're able to be the version of yourself that you're supposed to be - like in God's eyes. It doesn't matter if you're half crazy, or eccentric, or whatever it is - that you have to be true to who you were born to be.

You know how they say, "Find your voice"? That's your voice, in your pajamas. And it doesn't mean that you're going to publish it or print it or people are going to see you in your pajamas. It just means you are going to construct the foundation in your pajamas, in that voice.