Ciaran Hinds Quotes

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

Don't get me wrong. I want people to know who I am.

How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.

Nature gave you your look and there's only a limited amount you can do about that, but what you wear is the skin you choose for yourself.

I'm not what I make.

You can't escape your face.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

I've been working on the way my originality, my body, my face, my original form is perceived by me.

You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you aren't. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature. You still won't be perfect, but success isn't about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.

How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are?

What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you’re doing that already. If it means to act like you’re exempt from society’s influence, that’s the worst advice in the world; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes. The advice to ‘be yourself’ is obviously nonsense. But our brains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortable to believe we have a strategy for life than to believe we have no idea how to behave.

I feel like all my faults go into making the person that I am. I like myself as a person. And I think taking any fault away would change who I am as a person.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

How you present yourself is nobody's business but your own. The stylists have an opinion. The hair people have an opinion. The fans and the management have opinions. Ultimately, you have to trust that you are the safe-keeper of yourself.

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

When you know who you are, you know who you are. That's the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want to create you and mold you.

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

I don't use a hat as a prop. I use it as a part of me.

I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.

Whenever you see people talking about how real they are or how normal they are, it seems odd to have that self awareness that you could potentially not be normal.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

I brought my personality and sense of wonder and I think they wrote as much of my personality as they could. I do not go around kicking butt and saving the universe all the time but they tried to capture me as best as they could in the character.

I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.

I've always been very conscious of who I am.