Matthew Shultz Quotes

When you become a slave to a public persona and don't feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield, and it shouldn't come at the expense of your self-worth.

I felt like I needed to be a 'pretty girl' for someone else. I felt like I needed to change a lot about who I actually was to be perfect for them instead of just being who I am genuinely.

Sometimes when I go out on the road, I feel almost embarrassed or dismayed because I can't be the image of what kids want me to be. So I just try to be myself, and usually that works out OK.

Like so many kids, I just wanted to fit in, and I see now that I spent most of my life trying to be what I wasn't, trying to get people to like me.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

The pressure of looking a certain way and having to present yourself a certain way is hard. It's difficult to feel genuine about yourself when you feel the pressure of being a certain person.

People's perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I'm basically just your average dork.

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

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

When I got my headshots done, there was this woman screaming at me to blow my lips out. She kept saying, 'You want to be like Scarlett Johansson, don't you?' In the shot, my eyes are popping out; I look terrified. I realised I'd rather not get a job than go through pain to be something I'm not.

If people see me in some sort of niche, then that's fine. As long as it's not The Naked Guy, I don't care.

I'll be me, but I don't like it.

I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.

You can't become what you aren't, or you will start feeling awful about yourself.

There were absolutely times in my life when I tried to get people to call me Robert.

You don't have to be the cool party guy, getting everyone's attention.

I just felt that I was going to fall apart if I didn't learn to be myself.

It wasn't much fun being Charlotte Go-Go. I like being Charlotte Caffey better.

I so desperately wanted to be honest, and I so desperately wanted to love myself and accept myself for who I was.

People sometimes are afraid to be who they are because of other people's ideals.

As teenagers, we go through social, emotional and physical changes... and sometimes, to feel comfortable, we end up doing things that are not true to who we are just to fit in and feel loved.

Isn't it incredible how, you know, people have to fight to look like themselves. It's so crazy to me.

I don't want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.

I am not looking to maintain an image.