Few things can frustrate us more than trying to make a person someone he or she isn't; we feel crazy when we try to pretend that person is someone he or she is not.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.
I want people to see that I'm a real person, I overreact, I cry, I'm emotional. If I come across as perfect and in control, that wouldn't be who I really am.
Well, you create your own persona, don't you? And you have to live with that. But the people that I meet, they don't think that I'm a lunatic. And if they do, then that's OK, because it means that I'm playing the parts all right.
When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'
It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.
In order to be who you are as a human being, you need to be willing to upset people.
I decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make up their minds about me whatever I do or say, but at least I know I am being true to myself.
I get it that some people just don't know what to make of me.
You can't form a character without being completely comfortable with who you are as a person.
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