Genuine Self Quotes

Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

I owe it to my fans to be who I am. There's nothing fake about me.

Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

But you can't make someone be something they're not.

I want people to know I'm a real person, that I don't have someone running my Instagram; I don't have someone prewriting all of my interviews and stuff.

I think first of all my purpose is to be me. I didn't come here to specifically be a role model or anything.

How I am in the booth, how I am when I meet you, that's how I am in general.

The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.

You know it's real when you are who you think you are

I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.

Most people love you for who you pretend to be.

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

It's nice not to have to live a double life.

The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.

I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately. All I have to do is think of me and I have peace of mind. I'm tired of looking 'round rooms wondering what I've got to do or who I'm supposed to be. I don't want to be anything other than me.

What I'm saying is that, unlike a lot of portrayals of me, I'm not hiding behind the sunglasses. I'm out there working. I'm not trying to sell anybody anything, but I do realize we're entertainers.

Be yourself. It's the most important part of anything that you do. It's not fashion. It can be whatever you want to do.

The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being?

I was trying to find my way into the music business still, but I didn't want to portray something that I wasn't. I really wanted to be just me.

I can't put on a facade every time I go out.

People who know me, know who I am.

The real me is this deep, kind of somber person. I can't really help that.

The No. 1 thing I hear from people when I meet them in the airport is, 'Oh my gosh, you're just like you are on TV.' Well, I'm not an actor. I don't think anyone could figure out how to be this weird.