Dana Brooke Quotes

I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

When someone tells me that I'm not real, I say to them, 'Well, what about me isn't real?' I have not changed my figure. This is who I am.

How you present yourself is nobody's business but your own. The stylists have an opinion. The hair people have an opinion. The fans and the management have opinions. Ultimately, you have to trust that you are the safe-keeper of yourself.

MS doesn't define who I am.

If my dancing is a disaster - it doesn't define me as a person.

I don't think a name defines the core of who you are.

My whole life is not defined by what Hollywood does.

People try to tell me like that, 'Oh, you shouldn't be proud,' or, 'You're not this,' or, 'You aren't that,' or whatever the hell. I'm just kinda here to say, like, who is anybody else to tell me who I am or what I've gone through or what I haven't gone through?

I don't want to be someone else.

At the end of the day, the way I go about it is don't let somebody else's opinion of you define who you are. Don't let other people's thoughts or whatever it is be true.

I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one will.

Don't change for nobody.

I don't ever apologize for who I am because then I let someone else decide who I am.

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.

At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.

I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.

I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well.

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

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

I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.

If I am not grotesque, I am nothing.

Others will always seek to define you based on what they think you represent or who they think you are. But you have to be the one to control what you do and what you say and how you present yourself.

You can't ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes.

Don't let others define you. You define yourself.

I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.