Penelope Cruz Quotes

I've changed. I'm not worried about what people think, because I think people think what they want to think anyway.

I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.

Be yourself, take control of your life.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.

For me, I never want anyone outside of my immediate family and outside of me to have the power to alter the way that I walk, talk, shop, or date. When you start feeding off of that outside acceptance and accolades, you lose sight of what's actually real. Once you get there, it's kind of hard to double back.

I do not live for people, for what they think, for them to say that I'm nice, good, the best, perfect. Everyone has their opinion. And I respect that.

I used to tell myself that I will always be myself.

What other people think of me is none of my business. One of the highest places you can get to is being independent of the good opinions of other people.

Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.

It doesn't matter what people think of me. I've lived my life.

I've realised that I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I'm not around to please anyone any more, and it's a huge relief.

If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

Don't change for nobody.

People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.

I don't think you can really, truly be the partner you want to be until you know on an absolute level that you are a complete person on your own.

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

I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.

I'm still very much Kate.

I never let track define me. That's something that's really important to me.

I am who I am.