Leo Rosten Quotes

You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.

For me, the best way to be as an artist is to be completely yourself, letting that vulnerability come through.

I love 'I'm British But...' It's such a sweet, innocent, open-hearted film, and it has the sort of openness that I still aspire to with everything I do. It wears its heart, head, everything on its sleeve.

If you act weird, people are going to treat you weird, but if you're just yourself, people respond to that.

I've come to realize that the more I censor myself, the less people relate to me.

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.

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.

The truth is that we don't need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what's better than being roundly liked is being fully known - an impossibility both professionally and personally if you're so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Don't try to be like me. Try to be like yourself. Try to be very good at being yourself.

I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.

No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you do. I can only do what Mary J. Blige can do, so that relaxes me right there, and it gets me out of the competition and that whole thing.

It's ok to show all your colors.

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.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

I've tried singing like somebody else, and it never worked for me. The only thing that has ever worked for me was me being me, so either you love it or not.

I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

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 write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

You want everybody to like your work, but when you look at what's fashionable or trendy, it's pretty obvious that I don't exactly fit.

I think my very best piece of advice is be yourself.

If you write, write about what you do and who you are, and you can't be wrong. Don't lie about anything. You are very similar to everybody else in the world. You love, you hate, you have friends, you have enemies. Be who you are.

I just try really hard to be me, and sometimes that means I'm unfiltered. I try to give people myself because I think making a great product is being in touch with how you feel about things and being able to express things. I really hope I can stay in touch with how I feel about things and I'm able to express that.

I have to be true to myself, and that's what I know for sure. I can't try to be anybody else.

I been me from day one, I'm not 'bout to start acting different, talking different, treating people different, or looking different.