Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'

I think everyone is most confident when they are just being themselves and not trying to impress others.

There's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got.

The ideas I'm working with are ideas I'm committed to. I don't know how to soft-shoe them. I don't know how to make them more palpable. I just never knew how to be one of those girls. I wish I knew how to be that sometimes, but I don't know how to be that way.

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

Everybody wants to be loved by everybody, and they'll do everything they can to be loved, including not be who they really are, from person to person.

I don't have to carry myself as anybody that I'm not, and people picked up on it.

If I put on a tie and play what I really think I am, I'm a disaster.

It was easier to act, in a way, than to be myself. Somehow I just felt I was in the right place.

I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.

I don't always understand my worth.

Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?

How terrible would it have been if I had come out with some watered-down version of who I am? People fell in love with the real me, and I still feel blessed that that was how the journey began.

I just want to be myself.

It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.

I kind of keep my personality in my pocket a lot. When I start to do stand-up, that's not my true personality either. It's the personality of a guy who hasn't been able to say what he wanted to say.

If I can't be me and be accepted and loved for that, then what's the point?

It's hard to feel comfortable in your own skin when you're younger.

Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.

While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses.