It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.

If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

I detach myself from preconceived outcomes and trust that all is well. Being myself allows the wholeness of my unique magnificience to draw me in those directions most beneficial to me and to all others. This is really the only thing I have to do. And within that framework, everything that is truly mine comes into my life effortlessly, in the most magical and unexpected ways imaginable, demonstrating every day the power and love of who I truly am.

I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not by being whatever. Sometimes I act like a jerk, but I think people respect me for being myself. That’s the ultimate thing about the Smashing Pumpkins.

The strongest force in the universe is Compound Interest.

You’re just trying to be yourself, and for me, playing soccer is being myself. One day, you’re one person on a team. The next thing people are asking your opinion about things you’re not an expert on. Because they recognize you, they think you must know something about something – which isn’t necessarily the case.

When you are a marginalized person or a woman of color and/or someone who’s a part of the LGBTQ community, your acts become politicized, just by being yourself. Because we’re not completely accepting of all different kinds of human beings. By being myself, I’m doing something political.

I have nothing to hide. I enjoy being myself. I’m not going to change who I am just because it’s Halloween.

I’m not playing a role. I’m being myself, whatever the hell that is.

When I started singing about my life and what I was going through, I felt more confident. It was my own life, I was being myself, I was telling people what was happening.

Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in fact quite normal; I have a Bohemian profession without being myself a Bohemian. I am neither a conformist nor a great revolutionary.

I like being myself. Myself and nasty.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

My greatest sin has always been that I have a wonderful time being myself

I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn’t until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.

If I’m with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I’m with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you’re supposed to have a role. You’re not allowed to just be yourself.

I’ve often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you’d suppose.

Some people weren’t sure whether they wanted to get on board until the very end, and by then it’s too late – so we just shake their hand and thank them for their time as well. I don’t know that I’m beating anyone at their own game, other than just being myself and doing what I’ve promised my fans, my family, and my team that I’m going to do.

I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world and out. I want to keep being myself and mind the work that minds me. Work is not always a hard thing that looms over your years. Sometimes, work is the gift of the world to the wanting.

I never wanted to be an actor and to this day I don`t. I can`t get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.

I really like playing other people. There is no other feeling like it, to have a different voice come out of you and to have a different life for a couple of hours. I like being myself. But maybe it’s like you ride a bike every day and someone says, ‘For two hours tonight do you want to ride this Harley?’ You’d be like, ‘OK yeah!

I’m just saying I’m being myself, and people understand that.

Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

I try to keep it real. I don’t have time to worry about what I’m projecting to the world. I’m just busy being myself.

I’m me. I’m just out there being myself. I like having fun. But at the same time, I bring everybody together. So I’m really — or I try to be — like the glue of the team.

Sometimes when I’m brushing my teeth, I’ll look at the mirror and I swear my reflection seems kind of disappointed. I realized a couple of years ago that not only am I not super-skilled at anything, I’m not even particularly good at being myself.