Hailee Steinfeld Quotes

I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like.

Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

I don't want to look exactly the same in everything I do. And if I'm not identifiable, then that can be a blessing or a curse. But I'm fine with it. Because at the end of the day, I'm still working, and I'm enjoying what I do.

You can filter certain stuff - it depends what artist you are - but you're never going to be true to yourself if you're worried about what other people think.

To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

My style is all to myself.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

I am who I am.

When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'

Don't you dare alter your inner freak.

I am against the notion of style in itself.

On the first album I was saying, that's just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I'm afraid of something? No. I'm just going to be myself.

Some people like you, some people don't. In the end you just have to be yourself.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

I embrace the imperfections and celebrate them.

Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.

It's ok to show all your colors.

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.

I take my craft seriously, of course, but I don't feel the need to always play a certain character or a certain part or persona. I'm not going to cut something out of my life because it's not 'my image.' I want to be open enough that if I love something, I can do it, and it will add to myself as an entertainer.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

In my research, I've interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call 'different': scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

I never tried to sing like anybody else, fortunately I didn't sound like anybody else. It just happened.

This is what really makes real jazz musicians: people coming out with their own voice.