Ali Smith Quotes

How could I have been anyone other than me?

No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.

The best thing you've got going for you is individuality.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

I'm not a brand name, I'm a person.

Hima is Hima only. I haven't changed.

You make up a character, there's always gonna be parts of you that, like it or not, shine through.

Be yourself. And every person is unique.

Ronald Reagan was the best Ronald Reagan ever, and Ronald Reagan was a cool guy. You're not Ronald Reagan. You can't run as him; you can't relive his career. You can't just have somebody else's career. You have to be you.

I am nobody but myself.

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

My style is personal, my style of writing is personal, and I believe in that. I believe what comes out of me is an individual thing, and that's why I, I believe in the individual.

Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.

I'm an ardent fan. All I really had to do was put myself in my own shoes.

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.

You know, what's interesting is, being your own self is kind of a blur.

I'm not James Brown. I'm not Sam Cooke. I'm Charley Pride. I'm just me and that's what you got.

One thing nobody can do better than you is be you.

Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

You have to be someone.

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

You were born as the one you are.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

There is only one me.