James Cromwell Quotes

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!

Be that self which one truly is.

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

You've always made the mistake of being yourself.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.

Don't try to be me. No one but me can be me. But you can be you. Look inside yourself and get to know who the real you is. And then be that person. The best version of you.

I ran out of any type of persona. I just had to be me.

Before, I had an idea of what I thought I needed to be, and I'm realizing more and more that being yourself is the best thing.

I want people to see just who I am.

I've had people say things to me like, 'Don't change.' I don't know how to be anything other than myself.

The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto.

The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather

If you knew who God made you to be, you'd never want to be anyone else.

You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.

You are constantly invited to be what you are.

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.