Lucas Hedges Quotes

I felt more comfortable playing other people than being myself, when I was a kid. And then, the tables turned. Through my performances, I've become more comfortable with who I am, and then I just bring more of myself into the people that I play.

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.

If I have to change for a character, I need really logical reasons to look a certain way. Otherwise, I have finally cracked the code in being comfortable in my own skin regardless of what's fed to you of how you must look.

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

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.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

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.

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

I'm still very much Kate.

As time goes by people will see who I am for who I am.

The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.

I just am who I am.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

There's something to be said for embracing who you are.

It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some.

I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where I really wanted to be.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.

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.