Audrey Hepburn Quotes

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves. They want to be 50 Cent or someone else. They do what everyone else does even if it doesn’t fit where and who they are. But you get nowhere that way; your energy is weak and no one pays attention to you. You’re running away from the one thing that you own – what makes you different. I lost that fear. And once I felt the power that I had by showing the world I didn’t care about being like other people, I could never go back.

You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

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

Hima is Hima only. I haven't changed.

Style is something each of us already has, all we need to do is find it.

Apparently God makes us all different. Some of us are happy to respond to His individual touch on our lives by remaining individuals, and others of us are intimidated or frightened into trying to become like each other so that we have company, so that we don't feel so lonely.

I just needed to realize that style was like personality - it didn't always have to be consistent; it just had to be something you lived with.

From the very beginning you are being told to compare yourself with others. This is the greatest disease; it is like a cancer that goes on destroying your very soul because each individual is unique, and comparison is not possible. I am just myself and you are just yourself. There is nobody else in the world you can be compared with.

If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.

Be true to yourself. Establish your own style and stick to it.

I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what I am, and I can't change it. And I don't want to change it.

Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.

Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.

I don't want to look exactly the same in everything I do. And if I'm not identifiable, then that can be a blessing or a curse. But I'm fine with it. Because at the end of the day, I'm still working, and I'm enjoying what I do.

We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

An easy way to find your own style is to exaggerate yourself a bit and then find a balance.

I find the whole concept of being 'sexy' embarrassing and confusing. If I do a photo-shoot, people desperately want to change me - dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe. Then there's the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that's not me.

More and more, I realise I have a distinct voice, which I didn't realise! You know, it's just my voice. I had no idea. A lot of times, people will say now, 'I recognised you from your voice,' which is interesting to me.

You don't have to make yourself look like people expect you to look.

I have evolved over the years, just as we all have, but I definitely have stayed true to who I am.

Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be; that's stupid. So be yourself.

When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken.

I've had people say things to me like, 'Don't change.' I don't know how to be anything other than myself.