Shawn Amos Quotes

There's so much more to me as a human being than just my appearance, and I want to integrate that into my work.

I want to show people there's more to me than they think.

I am an actor, and not a clothes hanger. I am more than just my clothes.

My success is not who I am.

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

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

Your appearance shouldn't define who you are, and that's what I like, the contrast between people looking like the opposite of what they truly are deep inside.

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

I am somebody who feels that we're all fabulous, every human being, and I think when we do things that aren't so fabulous, we are disconnected from who we really are.

You don't have to look like a warrior in every role.

Maybe some people look at me and just see a footballer, or a black footballer. But I am much more than this. I tell my best friends all the time, 'If you look at me as a footballer, and not as Little Kouli, and not as your friend, then I have failed in life.'

I'm not what I make.

I wanted to be a woman, first. And then singer. And then actress. For me, to me it's not as important what you do so much as who you are.

Just sharing who you are - there's so much value in that.

The point is to be true to yourself - otherwise you may as well give up.

Being myself is what got me to where I am.

My self encompasses a lot of different things.

I don't feel bound by my face or my body. I don't feel like that's the biggest gift I have to offer the world. I feel like there are more parts of me to offer than that.

A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.

Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.

There is so much more to me than my parts and what I wear, what my clothes are.

For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.