Rue McClanahan Quotes

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Everybody grows in their own way.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.

In preindustrial times, the idea of creating something was more related to your personality. Personality was something that you constructed; it's something you had to actively develop and work on. Now personality is something that you have.

One creates oneself.

I'm me, and the me that's me is me and is going to continue to be me, and it's always reaching and growing.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

Even though you're married, you're still individuals. You still have to grow and nurture your individuality.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.

I mean I am not Hilary Duff. Like I have my own path that I'm going to go on.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.