Ben Hopkins Quotes

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

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.

My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

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

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 whole journey of being a wrestler is also a journey of finding yourself and who you are. If it feels natural to you, it's natural to me because I'm just being myself every time I'm out there.

What if everything I thought was wrong with me was actually right with me? You have to have the courage to show who you are to the world.

All I'm trying to do is be me.

I just try to be who I am.

I was fine being in the closet at the beginning of my career because that's what you were supposed to be - until I realized that it didn't serve anybody, and I was left feeling utterly empty. This is who I am, so I've gotta be me.

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

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

I want to show people all of me, because that's what I haven't been doing. To be able to play so many instruments, and no one's ever seen me play, it seems like someone who's bluffing.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

On the first album I was saying, that's just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I'm afraid of something? No. I'm just going to be myself.

Once you get everything out of your head about what everybody else is going to think, will radio play it - and I hope they do, I really do - once you shed all of that and just be who you are, that's who I am. That's taken a lot of growing up. I've come into myself musically and as a woman, and I hope to keep growing. If you don't grow, you die.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

I just am who I am.

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

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

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

My philosophy is to be me.

I have faced up to what I am.