David Sedaris Quotes

I'm like, 'Yeah, I could afford braces, but why should I change myself to be what everybody else wants me to be when I'm OK with who I am and I'm happy with who I am?'

I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.

There is more to me than my boobs and my boyfriends.

So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

I like who I am, and am puzzled to find that not everybody shares this opinion.

If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception as to remain blind to our fatal weaknesses. On the other, we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out — since our self-image is untenable — their false notions of us… We play roles doomed to failure before they are begun, each defeat generating fresh despair at the urgency of divining and meeting the next demand made upon us.

Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

The clothes are not making me... If I like it, that's all that matters...It's not about the clothes. It's about how I am as a person and how confident I am.

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it.

I don't really care what other people see me as. I seriously don't. I've always worried about what my opinion of myself is. And I've always thought that it carries most weight. So I don't care what other people's opinion of me is or how they view whatever I've said or done.

I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

I don't think I'm boring.

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.

It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.

I don't think a name defines the core of who you are.

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

I view myself as more than a running back.

You don't have to look like a warrior in every role.

Maybe some people look at me and just see a footballer, or a black footballer. But I am much more than this. I tell my best friends all the time, 'If you look at me as a footballer, and not as Little Kouli, and not as your friend, then I have failed in life.'

I've gotten a lot of attention, I think, just for being myself. I think that a lot of people, when they come to a competition, are afraid to be themselves no matter who they are.

When someone tells me that I'm not real, I say to them, 'Well, what about me isn't real?' I have not changed my figure. This is who I am.

I'm really not about changing my image.

I am an actor, and not a clothes hanger. I am more than just my clothes.

The last thing I want to think of myself as is anything different.