Katy Perry Quotes

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

You have to be who you are when you do music.

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

All my life, I wanted to sound like myself. I never wanted to sound like anybody else.

The worst frame of mind to be in is what the fans like or what the fans want, because then you lose the authenticity of who you are as an artist and who you are as a person.

I can't not be who I am.

In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not trying to imitate anyone or follow in their footsteps, because I know, Burt Reynolds was just one of the people that told me this, I know how you can only last in this business if you got something special to offer, just by being yourself.

You don't have to sacrifice who you are to follow your beliefs.

My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has become a place where only what is cool is good. Do you cut the movie on the basis of the beat of modernity or the basis of the beat of your own heart?

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.

I want to be judged by who I am, not what I am. I mean, I am Johnny Weir. Judge me the way you see me, love me the way you see me, hate me the way you see me.

I can't think of anything worse, really, than to try to live up to someone else's expectations of what you should be. You don't make art by consensus.

Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

I like that message for my own children that you don't have to go with the flow, go with the crowd. That you can be your own person. You can be an individual, and that's valid, and that's important.

I feel like I have a distinct voice.

Everyone is being told by society to talk this way, to dress that way, to be this person or to be that person, and it's so important to just maintain a sense of self.

What I would tell everyone is don't lose your sense of individuality.

I'm not trying to be anyone else.

I have this original style that I want to show to the world. I don't want to be kind of this beat down, bruise-you-up kind of dude and have Karl Anderson cut all my promos for me. I don't want to have to do that.

I don't want to be a copy of anyone else.

I would classify myself as an individual. That's what I try to stay true with - being myself, 100 percent.