Kris Kristofferson Quotes

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

I'm one Pia Zadora, the same way all the time. That's why I'm happy. It took me a long time to get to the point where could be myself all the time.

Acting was a godsend. I found myself because I loved acting.

I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

Art helped give me confidence.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

I think it is such an amazing moment when people realize what they are and what they can be, and they start putting themselves out into the world. I think you can see it in people when it's happening. They look different.

The things that motivated me at 21 don't suffice. Which is scary but really liberating in a way. It's taken me a long time to feel like, instead of being invited to the party with a bunch of people I don't know, that I actually deserve to be here.

I've come out of myself as a person at Chelsea and expressed myself on and off the pitch.

As I grew in confidence, I was able to come out and say that I'm a musician.

Around when I turned 17 and I bought my own studio equipment and started recording myself, I kinda found my own voice. I just started rapping like my normal self and this happy guy.

One should have strength and courage to follow their own truth, speak their own language, fulfill their own dreams.

I do believe that for me, my own personal journey has been one in which my voice has also been appreciated.

Finding ballet gave me passion for the first time in my life. I was always very shy and just wanted to fit in; I never daydreamed about what I wanted to be when I grew up. But dancing gave me a connection to my personality that made me grow.

I feel like there's something in me that desires to express myself even more and not be so afraid of a solo endeavor.

For me, the only way I know how to do this is to be myself. I actually learned that from 'The Dream' Dusty Rhodes. I was trying to be this wrestler, and I was trying to be cool, and Dusty literally told me, 'You've got to be yourself.' That's really how Bayley started, and that is what brought me this far.

All I needed was the courage to be me. That courage took a lifetime to develop.

I found a new life in painting, maybe because I think I've found myself. I'm so much more comfortable with myself now that, with every decision I make, I can go all out.

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.

I think with acting, since I became an actor... I, as a person, have become more confident and I have really come out of my shell somewhat... and back to myself, you know.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.