Fanny Brice Quotes

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

Be yourself. I had this three-week period where I wore this straw fedora. I thought it was what chicks wanted. And then it dawned on me that I was trying to be something that I wasn't, so I took the fedora off. So be yourself.

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

It was then that I realized that while playing the well-meaning tolerant individual (in short: liberal) garnered you fans and grades, it didn't matter. In my heart and head, I was a fraud.

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

You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.

So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.

Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

You cannot be in pretend for people to like you.

For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!

That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self.

I'm undeniably myself, and I think realizing that is the way to live life.

What I've come up with is that I just need to be me.