Rachel Shelley Quotes

Whether I'm a bit of an old soul or not, I am who I am, and that doesn't change, whether I'm with adults or with my friends.

I'm still the same person I've always been.

I'm still the same cat I always was.

When my Mama asks me will I ever change, I tell her yeah... But it's clear I will always be the same until the end of time.

A fool I am and I'll always be. They can change their minds, but they can't change me.

I'm saying goodbye to people's perception of me and who I am, I'm not saying goodbye to me, because this has always been me.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.

I'm a jerk, that's who I am. I'm like everybody else.

I'm a perfectly good carrot that everyone is trying to turn into a rose. As a carrot, I have good color and a nice leafy top. When I'm carved into a rose, I turn brown and wither.

I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.

Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

I've got a funny old face. Someone described it once, and I think they were being kind, as character. But I know what they mean! I've never been that conventional. I suppose maybe it means that my face can look different in different lights, so I just try and sort of keep it simple when I'm going out, to still look like me.

As the lightness buoys me, I wonder if maybe she was right. Maybe it's not about looking hot for guys, but about feeling like a place acknowledged you, winked at you, accepted you. It's strange because, of all the people in all the cities, I'd have thought that to Parisians I'd be invisible, but apparently I'm not. Apparently in Paris, not only can I skate, but I practically qualify for the Olympics!

Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.

I just needed to realize that style was like personality - it didn't always have to be consistent; it just had to be something you lived with.

There is a part of me that is desperately wanting to not necessarily be this cute, endearing, heart-on-his-sleeve type of character that just wants to be liked.

I've always seen myself as a small entity, and it will always stay like that. I'm not changing. But I think the big challenge for me taking on the Dior thing is to see how I can connect that to such a huge institution.

I don't think I have a split personality. I believe the same person I am on the field is the same person I am at home - passionate about everything I do, whether it's reading a Bible or just hanging out with my wife.

We are what we are, neither a good or as bad as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.

I've looked in the mirror every day for 20 years. It's the same face.

I'm an elderly Jewish lesbian trapped in a 33 year old nerd's body.