Matt Sydal Quotes

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

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

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

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

To get what you want out of life, all you can really do is find out who you are, and do that.

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.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

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

Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.

It's strange: I've done so many things up until I did 'Obvious Child,' including writing children's books and making 'Marcel the Shell.' To me, the through-line is incredibly clear: it all comes from wanting to be connected to my own inner voice and not wanting to be on somebody else's agenda if that means that I can't be myself.

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

You're lucky if you find something that makes you feel like yourself; that's the one time that you feel like you know who you are. Most people are struggling to find that out all the time.

Be that self which one truly is.

You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.

I only know how to be Sizzle.

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.

There's no point in me being something other than me.

I think everybody needs to find out who they are and who their, like, inner superhero is, or who you like to be. The world would be a better place if everyone was doing what the hell they wanted to do and being who they wanted to be.

I think when you start changing things, you're not being yourself.