Erin Wasson Quotes

Every single day I'm alive or you're alive, we're choosing this life and this persona. We choose to be the stay-at-home mom who loves baking and Pilates. We choose to be a hipster who loves coffee shops and artisan goods. We choose to be a lawyer who runs marathons and only eats organic.

I don't believe we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time.

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

I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

You have to bring yourself to a character.

Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image

We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.

I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.

I am not the kind of person I want to be.

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.

Aspire to be the man you pretend to be when you're trying to get laid.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

We think we need to create ourselves, always doing a paste-up job on our personalities. That is because we're trying to be special rather than real. We're pathetically trying to conform with all the other people trying to do the same.

You cannot be anything you want to be - but you can be a whole lot more of who you already are.

The real self is who you are when you're at home, when you're comfortable, and the false self is what you're pretending - and the reason you pretend is because you want to create a character for the surroundings you're within.

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.