Mary Steenburgen Quotes

I feel good in my own skin because I've accepted the fact that I'm me. That's what's so great about being alive and being on this planet: Everybody's different.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

People are embracing the thing that made them different growing up instead of letting that thing elicit shame.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

As you get older, whatever your struggles may be - how you sound, how you look, how you dress - you grow into yourself a little bit more. You end up realizing the world wants you and not a carbon copy of six other people.

I have read a lot about what I am and who I am: 'mini,' a copy, simply 'more of the same.' Dear delegates, I stand before you as I am and as life made me and I am proud of that.

When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken.

Just be yourself man, be proud of who you are.

Don't be ashamed of who you are, embrace who you are.

Own who you are and celebrate it.

I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said.

I'm not ashamed of who I am.

Being confident is the key to life. Don't be afraid to be you! I'm super different from a lot of kids my age with style and personality, and I'm OK with it. And if you are OK with it, everyone else will be, too. Just be yourself.

Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

It used to bother me - having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I'd fit in, but I hated them and couldn't wait for them to grow back. Now I embrace them. I realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful.

I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it.

I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star.

I don't ever wish I was somebody else.

The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me.

You are one of a kind and unique. Never forget that.

I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.

It's all about confidence and how you feel about yourself. There's no such thing as a perfect woman. I like imperfections - that's what makes you unique.

I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I'd rather be imperfect than perfect.