Melissa Marr Quotes

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

I've always tried to stay true to my authentic self.

No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.

It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.

We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That's okay.

Ultimately, it's not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people's expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.

I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

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

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

I'm probably one of the most dangerous men in the world if I want to be. But I never wanted to be anything but me.

And I know when I was younger, and still, I always marvel at what I feel is different from what I'm told that I'm supposed to feel.

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

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

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

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.

Be that self which one truly is.

I have to stay true to who I am.

I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny - I looked like me.

I need to just be myself, express myself.