Suzy Kassem Quotes

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

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

'Days Before Rodeo' is just the journey of me finding out who I am.

Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image

A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.

The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed, if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.

It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.

Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies

There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true potential. Most people must live with varying degrees of the shame and fear of not being fully in control of themselves.

First you have to know who you are. That is the most important thing, as if you don't know who you are you will either get swallowed up or you follow some unsuitable trends and just become a nonentity.

It's so important to raise people to grow up to be who they are and not be forced to be who they're not. What an awful thing to do to people - it's like being in prison.

God will help you be all you can be, but he will never let you be successful at becoming someone else.

This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.

You cannot be all things to all people. Be unique. Be different. Give to others what you want yourself. And do what you were made to do.

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.

The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves.

All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.

I want to challenge people to find out who they are.

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.

In every role, a part of me gets to come out.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

Trying to give an individual a voice has always kind of been my mission in my life. As an actor, I've always seen that was something that needed to be done. You need to find that voice inside of you so that you can stand up and be who you really are.