Ellen Page Quotes

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

They tell me what to wear, how to look, what I should say, how I should be. Until recently I had given into that pressure, I lost sight of who I was. I listened to opinions of people and I tried to change who I am because I thought others would accept me for it. And I realized I don't know how to be anything but myself.

We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves.

What I know for sure: Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

I think you're always policing yourself by trying to do what you think would be "cool" and accepted by other people, until you start to figure out who you really want to be. Growing up is an ongoing push-and-pull of you being yourself and you performing to what society expects you to be.

It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

You've always made the mistake of being yourself.

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

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

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

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.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

I've tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.

Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won't work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.

To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.

Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored

Unhappiness comes when you try to be like everyone else rather than embracing the unique person that you are.

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.

I find it so ironic that all you do, for the earliest part of your life, is try to be like everybody else. And then you turn 30, and you realize all you want to do is distinguish yourself in some way.

A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people’s evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction.

I believe so many people live what I call that false identity they are living according to other people's expectations, associations, their experiences, the labels in life. And they buy into that.

We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

The fact is ones own voice is not heard anywhere else. Its a challenge to be yourself. It takes a lot of courage.