Maria Shriver Quotes

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

I have to have some of my voice because I have my own experiences that I lived through.

I want to be more myself. Sometimes it takes awhile to find your voice.

I don't sing very loud, which some people have given me trouble about, but we all have to figure out what our voices are, embrace that.

Be You, Live Civil was a tour that I started, and it's just always something that I've been to myself. 'Be you, live civil' is like 'live my life.' That was my short version of saying to live my life.

You know how they say, "Find your voice"? That's your voice, in your pajamas. And it doesn't mean that you're going to publish it or print it or people are going to see you in your pajamas. It just means you are going to construct the foundation in your pajamas, in that voice.

If you get mad about how your voice sounds when it comes out of your own mouth, it's not really my fault. Go ahead and be yourself.

In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

The fact is ones own voice is not heard anywhere else. Its a challenge to be yourself. It takes a lot of courage.

I think it was a desire to be able to find my own voice. I think that was the big urge within me.

Before tomorrow, make a list of your traits. Make YOUR list - who you are and why. Then ask yourself this question: where did it come from? Are you the way you are because it is what you want... or what they want? Are you a product of your imagination or someone else's? Think about it.

Listen to your own voice. Don't listen to someone else's. To me the way to live is to always move forward - to keep searching for whatever it is that interests you.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

Be yourself, let you come through.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

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

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

I do have a right to talk about my life, to tell my truth from my perspective.

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.

I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.