Leeza Gibbons Quotes

We need to forget what we think we are, so that we can really become what we are.

It’s not what you do – it’s what you are becoming.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

I wake up and play a different person every day. Playing all these different characters and trying to figure out who your true authentic self is at the core of that as you're playing all these different roles, and man, that self-awareness starts to come into effect. And you start to see who you really are.

I choose roles that are not me.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

I stopped acting Romeo and just became Romeo.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

You're always just going to be who you are.

I think when you start changing things, you're not being yourself.

Acting made me realise this is me; this is what I always wanted to be. Even today, I am an awkward kid, and I feel most comfortable when I become a character before the camera.

He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto.

I feel like I'm getting closer and closer to myself with time, not only in terms of my career choices, but the choices I make within one role or performance. I used to compose characters that were farther from me, but I find now that I like to craft a subtle composition, a subtle change in your essence.

We are always pregnant with a truer version of ourselves.

Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

The disappearance of your person is not your disappearance, remember; on the contrary, it is your appearance. As your person disappears, your personality falls away; your individuality, your individual arises. To have a personality is hypocrisy. To be an individual is your birthright.

As they advanced (towards the fountain) one after another of Bastian's Fastastican gifts fell away from him. The strong, handsome, fearless hero became the small, fat, timid boy. (...) But then he jumped into the crystal-clear water... He drank till his thrist was quenched. And joy filled him from head to foot, the joy of living and the joy of being himself. He was new born. And the best part of it was that he was now the very person he wanted to be. If he had been free to choose, he would have chosen to be no one else.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.