Jurnee Smollett Quotes

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.

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

I don't have any issue with people seeing my real self.

The flaws, the mistakes I make - that's the real me.

I'm very open and honest, and I feel like it's important for women to hear that we're not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would've been better off if I'd left myself alone.

I'm a very open person, very self-deprecating. I accept my flaws.

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.

This is who I am. I'm not perfect. I don't want to try to be perfect.

I love, but I am not entirely sure how to be loved: how to be seen and known for the utterly flawed woman I am. It demands surrender. It demands acknowledging that I am not perfect, but perhaps I deserve affection anyway.

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

Regardless of who your parents are, where you come from, or what you look like, you can embrace your flaws and be honest with yourself.

What's important to me is love, especially that. What's important to me is growing and evolving. But ultimately, what's important to me is being real and being authentic. I've spent enough time in my life holding poses, playing roles.

When I think about any of the missteps in my life that I've made, all of which I'm grateful for, it's because I just so wanted to be truly seen and heard for who I am and was afraid I wasn't or wouldn't be.

I am not perfect. That's for sure.

We can be shiny and perfect and admired, or we can be real and honest and vulnerable and loved. But we actually do have to choose.

I don't believe I've ever truly been in love because I don't believe that I've known myself well enough in the past to allow someone to love me.

Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.

I don't really know any other way than to be vulnerable or just be myself.

The way I move, the way I think, the way I handle myself - it might be by accident, but it's who I am, and I've just learned to own that.

I think for so long I've hidden. I think actually now I'm in the limelight, I don't want everyone who follows me to think I'm perfect.

I don't always look so beautiful.

I'm very open with my life, and I don't regret it because it's what got me here.

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.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.