Margaret Young Quotes

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

You're lucky if you find something that makes you feel like yourself; that's the one time that you feel like you know who you are. Most people are struggling to find that out all the time.

I guess what I know now that I definitely didn't know as a child, is that being truest to yourself is the greatest weapon in the war to achieve. That sounds really negative, but in conquering or achieving something. I think, as a child, I thought I had to be somebody else.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

I'm always aware that there are, broadly speaking, two different ways to act: there is acting, and then there's being, and I'm always more interested in that.

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

Trying to give an individual a voice has always kind of been my mission in my life. As an actor, I've always seen that was something that needed to be done. You need to find that voice inside of you so that you can stand up and be who you really are.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

Learn what you are and be such.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.