Benjamin Clementine Quotes

I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.

The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.

And the question is, which one is really "you.

I always say that you are who you are and you can't hide it.

No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.

I’ve tried being other people and myself suits me the best.

She used to say 'You can be whoever you want, even yourself'.... Yeah, I show up knowin exactly who I was and never leave as myself

Early in my career I was divided because I had the real self underneath: the lawbreaker, the anarchist, the person who swims against the tide, the outsider, the loner, all of that guy. He was my private self, and I had this other side that wanted to be liked in order to do all those things I dreamed of as a little boy. I didn't realize that those things didn't go together until later. And I'm quite sure that my use of acid and peyote helped me accept what was really going on inside of me instead of what I had imposed on myself.

I'm still very much Kate.

I have always been Fred Durst and I've always been me.

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

There are always two sides to a person. CL is me, and so is Chaelin.

You're always just going to be who you are.

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

For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That's the reason I'm still alive.

Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.

Some people work hard to be something that they're not, and I don't work at all, I'm just me. And that can bother anybody I'm not working nearly as hard as the other guys, and they don't like it.

You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you aren't. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature. You still won't be perfect, but success isn't about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.

(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people.

No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here

To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.

I think beauty comes from actually knowing who you are. That's real beauty to me.