Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

You can't be all of the people you're influenced by, so you make your own filter and create your own beautiful, unique thing in the world. Soak up the world, man, and make something of your own.

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes.

When someone comes along and expresses him or herself as freely as they think, people flock to it. They enjoy it.

The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.

My father's music was influential. My place is my place. I must be myself and who I am.

People always ask me who my role models are and who I want to be like, and I don't wanna be like anybody; I wanna be me. I look up to a lot of people, and they have had great influences on me, but I wanna be original and different.

Be like Sasha Fierce. Be like Miley Cyrus. Be like Rihanna. Be like Lady Gaga. Be like Rita Ora and Sia. Be like Madonna. I cannot be like them, except to the extent that they are already being like me.

The moment you start thinking about what other people and other artists think, you're going to start writing like other people.

The more you see somebody else's version of something, the harder it is to make it your own.

Tupac is definitely an icon. There'll never be another Tupac, so I'm not gonna ever, ever try to fill those shoes. I'm just gonna stay in my lane and be the best me that I can be.

I used to watch everybody's stuff, but I found I would get slightly influenced by the other comics. I try to avoid it now.

I feel like I have a unique voice that's true and authentic, and we need more of that. If I can inspire more of that, I need to do that in as many places as possible.

A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions... think.

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

I just try to be myself and not conform to something I'm not and just continue doing what I do. I just try not to think about the fact that I'm an inspiration for people.

I feel blessed because not only my character is, but I, myself, can be a role model for people to show that is okay to be your own unique self.

I didn't want to feel like I was mimicking or copying someone else's performance, whether it's subconscious or not.

What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.

If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He is universal by virtue of the inseparability of his organism from the cosmos. He is unique in that he is just this organism and not any stereotype of role, class, or identity assumed for the convenience of social communication.