Lucinda Williams Quotes

You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

I need to just be myself, express myself.

In real life, I feel tiny and quite embarrassed all the time. But when people come up to me in France and want to talk to Christine, it's okay. It's cool. Because they're really talking about themselves, their own Christines.

The way I move, the way I think, the way I handle myself - it might be by accident, but it's who I am, and I've just learned to own that.

I don't have any issue with people seeing my real self.

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

I never try to be too sexy. People know when you're not comfortable and trying to be sexy.

The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.

There's my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energised and fun.

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.

I don't know, I think people who meet me just get pretty much what I am.

I am not good at first or second impressions, and you have to spend some time with me to know me. Also, I don't want to put my best foot forward and prove something, as that is not me. I would rather be me and have you like me for who I am, instead of being someone else.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

When I was younger, I was afraid to be myself.

I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.

I just want to be who I am, as I am.

There's something to be said for embracing who you are.

It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some.

We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.

There's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got.

I've spent a lot of time self-reflecting. Especially as an actor, you have to know yourself really well in order to do things effectively. And when I dress, I dress for me. I don't dress to make other people think that I'm this way or that way.