India Arie Quotes

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

I've come out of myself as a person at Chelsea and expressed myself on and off the pitch.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

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

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

I can't tone it down. I'm being me, and I'm being myself, and I'd be doing myself an injustice, and I'd be doing an injustice to those kids who don't feel like they're comfortable to be themselves.

I remember that when people started listening to what I had to say, I had a choice to set up a veil, even if it meant being something that I'm not. Ultimately, that's not the decision I made. I owned more of everything I am, which was a little nerve-racking.

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 guess I just feel very comfortable with being myself.

I don't really have a strategy other than to just be myself.

All I'm trying to do is be me.

The biggest mistake a woman can make is not to be herself in public or private.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

I'm one Pia Zadora, the same way all the time. That's why I'm happy. It took me a long time to get to the point where could be myself all the time.

I'm always aware that there are, broadly speaking, two different ways to act: there is acting, and then there's being, and I'm always more interested in that.

I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

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

I've spent a lot of time self-reflecting. Especially as an actor, you have to know yourself really well in order to do things effectively. And when I dress, I dress for me. I don't dress to make other people think that I'm this way or that way.

I know who I am.