Laurel Van Ness Quotes

No one's ever called me anything but 'Arne.'

Most people call me Mercy. I like it.

I'm Thalia on my own.

I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.

I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?

I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.

I couldn't imagine living my life with another name.

I didn't want to be one of those arty nutcases.

I never felt like an Amanda.

Everyone always said, 'When you're 10, you'll want to be Elizabeth, or when you're in college.' And every time, I was was just like, 'No, I'm Beanie. That's who I am.' So I love my name because I think it really suits me.

I did get a reputation for being choosy and not very easy to be approached, and none of that is true. It is not that I am not approachable, it is just that I am trying to find myself and establish who I am as an artist.

I want to really brand myself as an individual.

I am not a sex symbol of the Broadway community. I know guys who are, and I say, 'Rock it out.' But I'm more comfortable in a different land. I don't know what land it is, but not that one.

I have never wanted to hide my freckles. I just didn't like the way I looked without them; it didn't look like me.

Despite what people say about my major film roles, I'm not a dull or monotonous woman searching for self-identity.

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

My name is Ralphie. How many Ralphie's do you know? It's unique.

I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well. I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic.

Your own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into a likeness, a caricature of yourself, which still lives on and appears to be, in some way, the truth about you. Even a flattering picture is... a lie.

Everybody thinks I'm the weirdo in the family.

I think I've been a bit misunderstood; the first record was more timid than I wanted it to be. I don't like getting pinned down by sex or how I sound like because it's not who I am or what I want to be.

You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me.

I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe.

I prefer to remain mysterious and have people MAKE their own judgment calls about me than to always have to EXPLAIN who I am and what I’m about.

I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am. My character. My make-up. My culture and heritage is a very rich one. So what if it's difficult for people to pronounce? We all learned how to say Schwarzenegger.