Chris Ofili Quotes

I'm totally myself.

You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.

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

I find it a very, very powerful thing to be yourself and not to try and be something else and to use that as your biggest shield and your biggest attack in the world - to just be you.

What I've come up with is that I just need to be me.

People who know me know that I'm the last person on earth that wants to be somebody else.

I've gotten a lot of attention, I think, just for being myself. I think that a lot of people, when they come to a competition, are afraid to be themselves no matter who they are.

The way I dress, the way I talk, the way I do things, what I say on Twitter - it's just like, that's who you are, so don't try to mask who you are just because of what other people think of you.

I like being known for who I am.

I see that I'm very unique, but I'm not trying to be. I'm just being me.

I've had people say things to me like, 'Don't change.' I don't know how to be anything other than myself.

My music just stands for being true to who you are.

Conforming is not cool. Embracing who you are and what makes you different is actually what’s really cool.

I’ve tried being other people and myself suits me the best.

Everybody wants to be fancy and new. Nobody wants to be themselves. I mean, maybe people want to be themselves, but they want to be different, with different clothes or shorter hair or less fat. It's a fact. If there was a guy who just liked being himself and didn't want to be anybody else, that guy would be the most different guy in the world and everybody would want to be him.

Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.

I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.

Be yourself, let you come through.

I try to explain to people that the only way to be cool is to be who you truly are, and the only way to live life is to do the things that you want to do and be the person that you want to be no matter who that is or what that is or how you have to do it. That's the only way you can be genuinely happy.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

During 'Hawthorne', I was constantly trying not to be too outrageous and keep it serious. This has been so refreshing for me because it's such a good outlet for the inner me to just be. That's the whole point of 'Glee' anyways - to just be who you are and that's enough. I really feel that way on set.

I'm just who I am. I don't try to change myself for other people.

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

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.