Carmen Dell'Orefice Quotes

I'm undeniably myself, and I think realizing that is the way to live life.

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

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.

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.

What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think - or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

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

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

I don't sing very loud, which some people have given me trouble about, but we all have to figure out what our voices are, embrace that.

I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.

I gotta be who I am now. How do you not, right?

You're always just going to be who you are.

There is an amazing power getting to know your inner self and learning how to use it and not fight with the world. If you know what makes you happy, your personality, interests and capabilities, just use them, and everything else flows beautifully.

Once you really know yourself, can't nobody tell you nothing about you.

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

The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

I'm at a place in my life right now where I'm very happy, very content. I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.

I've gradually grown more comfortable with who I am and what I am.

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.