Tatiana Maslany Quotes

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

I see myself as a flashlight in the dark. I'm not trying to be overlooked anymore.

You can accept that perception of yourself that you're getting too old to be interesting or buyable. Or you can kind of do what you do and see what happens.

When I started working with Maryse is when I really felt like people can start to see what I stand for and who I am.

My friend's mom said to me, 'honey, I think you're gay.' And I go, 'yeah, I am.' As soon as someone vocalized it to me, gave me permission. I was like, 'yes, yes, yeah!'

Find your Light; They can't love you if they can't see you

Awareness is always the first step.

The fact that, for so many generations, ordinary, everyday Americans came out of the closet and told their family and friends about who they are has laid the foundation for public sentiment to change. They got comfortable in their own skins to be able to share themselves with family and friends. This is where social change took place.

I knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.

I do think that you can dress yourself out of a problem. The way that a haircut and a new pair of pants can make you feel is better than any therapist, because when you look in the mirror, you see a different person - you are a different person. It's superficial change that can lead to real change.

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

Some women say as they get older they're no longer noticed: they disappear. Men, for instance, don't see them. Nobody wants them. That doesn't happen to me because of who I am. Not because I'm any more scintillating company, but because I'm Ruth Rendell.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

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

Today is the day to break free from the prison of the person you know yourself to be and step into a self you have yet to know. Will it be comfortable? No, but do it anyway.

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.

I feel like I didn't know who I was when I was 15. I don't feel like you're who you are for life, not even when you're 20.

In my twenties, I was obsessed with what other people thought of me. In my thirties, it's about my children, my husband, my work. In my forties, it's going to be about me, and I shan't care what anyone else thinks. I can't wait!

I want kids to know that it is okay to make a change in order to feel better about themselves.

I watched a million coming-out videos, and that was kind of how I accepted it myself.

You need to rebel to see the other options and to get a much richer, fuller sense of the world. And it's only once you've worked through that and seen through that that you can come back and accept who you are. You have to try all the other options.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

I'm challenging everybody on every side of every divide to be more who they are, to cultivate their capacity for awareness.

I think I'm happy with who I am. I don't know if I learned that from other girls or just people in general.

I've never been more normal than I am now.