Ameen Rihani Quotes

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

The suit-and-tie job is very nice but it's not really who I am in my heart.

We all have our ambassador that we send forward into the world. We all have people we are varying degrees of real with. There's a public face we all wear. As I get older and more comfortable in my skin, I am trying to combine the two so the real me is there all the time.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

The authentic self is the soul made visible.

What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.

Always be yourself. At the end of the day, that's all you've really got; when you strip everything down, that's all you've got, so always be yourself.

Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.

I don't think people know me at all. At the end of the day, if you see me in sequins and glitter out at a club, you might think that's all there is. But, you know, it's just glitter. My friends who I've known since I was 17 - they know who I am.

Being beautiful isn't everything... Sometimes it's interesting to show how you feel on the inside on the outside, just through expressing yourself.

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.

My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.

Be that self which one truly is.

As I grow older, I feel like my authentic self has been able to shine through more and more, and people can see that.

There is the real person I am, and there is the stage persona.

I'm just being P.J., that's the number one thing, I'm just being me. Like I'm not portraying something or acting or putting on something that I wouldn't put on every day in my life or doing anything that I wouldn't already be doing.

Filmmakers are stuck with my glamorous image. Even if I sit in track pants and a T-shirt, I will still look glamorous. That's the way I am. But there's more to me. I'm a real person.

I have always believed that your face is a mirror to your nature.

Because I get my hair styled in so many different ways, when I get the chance to be natural and just me as a person and not an actress, I like to have a stable, consistent look that reminds me that I'm me.

I don't feel like I'm a character; I certainly don't feel like I'm a gimmick. I am who I am.

My 'Only Connect' personality isn't put on: it's definitely me.

You don't bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you.

We have the real self and the false self, there's nothing wrong with them, and everyone has both of them.

I am not an image. I am a human being.