Line #104 Quotes/BeYourself


1	[[AC:Anime & Manga]]
2	->''If everyone is not special\
3	Maybe you can be what you want to be!\
4	[[AllOfTheOtherReindeer Even if you're burdened by happiness and sadness]]\
5	Your life is your own, OK?\
6	It's okay to not be special\
7	Everyone will surely find their own answers!''
8	-->-- [[ExpositoryThemeTune "99"]], ''Webcomic/MobPsycho100''
9
10	->'''Shinji:''' I'm a coward. I'm cowardly, sneaky, and weak!\
11	'''Misato:''' No. Only if you think you are, but if you know yourself, you can take care of yourself.
12	-->-- ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''
13
14	->''"Listen, Simon. Never forget. Just believe in yourself. Not in the Simon that I believe in; not in the Kamina that you believe in. Have faith in the Simon who believes in you."''
15	-->-- '''Kamina''', ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''
16
17	->''"No, you're wrong! We all have just one life to live. And '''this''' is your life you're living! It's not his!"''
18	-->---'''Kira Yamato''' to '''Rey Za Burrel''', his rebuttal to the latter's mind-games pretending to be [[spoiler:Rau Le Crueset]], ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'', "Rey"
19
20	[[AC:Comic Strips]]
21	->'''Wally:''' The secret of happiness is to love who you are, not who others want you to be.\
22	'''Dilbert:''' Doesn't that make you a sociopath?\
23	'''Wally:''' Yeah, I love that about me.
24	-->-- ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}''
25
26	[[AC:Film -- Animated]]
27	->''"For'' five minutes, ''[[SubvertedTrope could you]]'' not ''be [[SidekickCreatureNuisance yourself?]] For'' '''''[[MotorMouth FIVE MINUTES!]]'''"''
28	-->-- '''Shrek''', to [[NonHumanSidekick Donkey]], ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2''
29
30	->'''Remy:''' Why do I need to pretend?\
31	'''Gusteau-apparition:''' But you don't, Remy. You never did.
32	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}''
33
34	->''"There is no secret ingredient. It's just you."''
35	-->-- '''Po''', ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1''
36
37	->''"Let me tell you something, Balto. A dog cannot make this journey alone. But maybe a '''wolf''' can."''
38	-->-- '''Boris''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}''
39
40	->''"Al, all joking aside, you really oughta be yourself."''
41	-->-- '''Genie''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', after Aladdin starts to feel trapped in the prince lie
42
43	->''"Look, it's none of my business, but who cares what these creeps think of you? They don't make you what you are, you do. You are who you choose to be."''
44	-->--'''Dean [=McCoppin=]''', ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant''
45
46	->'""Everyone keeps telling me how ''my'' story is supposed to go! Nah, I'ma do my own thing."''
47	-->-- '''Miles Morales''', ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse''
48
49	->''"People have all kinds of sides to them, Mei. And some sides are...messy. The point isn't to push the bad stuff away, it's to make room for it, live with it."''
50	-->-- '''Jin Lee''', ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed''
51
52	[[AC:Film -- Live-Action]]
53	->''"Well, when I started out, I wanted to help people. But I became desperate and selfish. What I did was wrong. Buddy's who I thought the whole world wanted me to be. He's who I thought I wanted to be. And sometimes when you want something so so bad, you do just about anything to get it. But I learned one thing from Buddy. I learned that life isn't about being happy with how much you weigh, but just being happy with yourself."''
54	-->-- '''Sherman Klump''', ''Film/TheNuttyProfessor1996''
55
56	->''"There is no one like you. There has never been anyone like you. There will never be anyone like you. Therefore, be yourself."''
57	-->-- '''André de Shields''', ''Film/JohnMulaneyAndTheSackLunchBunch''
58
59	[[AC:Literature]]
60	->''"It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong."''
61	-->-- '''Rincewind''', ''Literature/{{Sourcery}}''
62
63	->''"So...whatever it is you are going to do next, do it as you. Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth to go back to."''
64	-->-- '''Sergeant Jackrum''', ''Literature/MonstrousRegiment''
65
66	->''"The only power I have--The only power any of us have--is to be who we are. That's what I'm going to do here. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Be who I am.]]"''
67	-->-- '''Jacen Solo''', ''[[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Traitor]]''
68
69	->'''Tiffany:''' It's not funny, Miss Treason! What shall I do?\
70	'''Miss Treason:''' I don't know. If possible, be yourself.
71	-->-- '''Tiffany Aching''' and her mentor for this book discuss the latest trouble she's gotten herself into, ''Literature/{{Wintersmith}}''
72
73	->'''Bramblestar:''' I was just trying to do what Firestar would have done. He would have rescued the kittypets and helped [=ShadowClan=] not once, but twice.\
74	'''Sandstorm:''' That's not what you're supposed to do! [=StarClan=] knew you would be a good leader in your own right. That's why they led your paws along this path. Firestar didn't appoint you to be his echo, but to be yourself. He trusted you to protect [=ThunderClan=], to make decisions for them based on your own judgement and instincts. ... Tell me honestly, if there was no [=ThunderClan=], no Firestar, no expectations, would you still have helped the kittypets? Interfered with [=ShadowClan=]?\
75	'''Bramblestar:''' Yes, I would.\
76	'''Sandstorm:''' You are the leader of [=ThunderClan=] now, Bramblestar. Not Firestar. Be the leader that you want to be. No cat expects anything else.
77	-->-- ''Literature/WarriorCats'': "Bramblestar's Storm"
78
79	[[AC:Live-Action TV]]
80	->''"People always say you should be yourself, like "yourself" is this definite thing, like a toaster or something. Like you can know what it is, even."''
81	-->-- '''Angela''', ''Series/MySoCalledLife''
82
83	->'''Molly:''' You should always just be yourself.\
84	'''Aisling:''' That's a movie thing to say, not a real life thing to say.
85	-->-- ''Series/{{Trivia}}''
86
87	->''"You make each day a special day. You know how; by just your being you. There's only one person in this whole world like you. And people can like you exactly as you are."''
88	-->-- '''[[Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood Fred Rogers]]'''
89
90	->''"Success is related to standing out, not fitting in."''
91	-->-- '''Don Draper''', ''Series/MadMen''
92
93	->'''Ginger:''' Don't tell me I'm unique, that's absurd!\
94	'''Johnny:''' But you're one of a kind, I give you my word. / There's nobody quite like you!
95	-->-- "There's Nobody Quite Like You" song, ''Series/JohnnyAndTheSprites''
96
97	->''Let me give you some advice, bastard: never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armour. Then it can never be used to hurt you.''
98	-->-- '''Tyrion Lannister''', ''Series/GameOfThrones''
99
100	[[AC:Music]]
101	->''"Your only validation is in living your own life\
102	Vicarious existence is a fucking waste of time"''
103	-->-- '''Music/GunsNRoses''', "Don't Damn Me"
104
105	->''"There's only one thing that I know how to do well\
106	And I've often been told that you only can do\
107	What you know how to do well\
108	And that's be you\
109	Be what you're like\
110	Be like yourself"''
111	-->-- '''Music/TheyMightBeGiants''', "Whistling In The Dark"
112
113	->''"Make lots of noise,''\
114	''Kiss lots of boys,''\
115	''Or kiss lots of girls''\
116	''If that's somethin' you're into,''\
117	''When the straight and narrow''\
118	''Gets a little to straight,''\
119	''Roll up a joint,''\
120	''Or don't,''\
121	''Just follow your arrow wherever it points,''\
122	''Follow your arrow wherever it points."''
123	-->-- '''Music/KaceyMusgraves''', ''Follow Your Arrow''
124
125	->''"In your hands is whom you've chosen to be/Life is a freedom, now go out there be be free"''
126	-->-- '''Music/{{Reamonn}}''', "Through the Eyes of a Child"
127
128	-> ''I've become so numb, I can't feel you there\
129	Become so tired, so much more aware\
130	I'm becoming this, all I want to do\
131	Is be more like me, and be less like you''
132	-->-- '''Music/LinkinPark''', [[Music/{{Meteora}} "Numb"]]
133
134	->''"Notice the ones who all like to criticize\
135	Are the ones trying to hide\
136	Why would I sell my soul to be one of them?\
137	Better to love the me within behind the skin\
138	I choose to be a goddess inside"''
139	-->--'''Music/HeatherDale''', "Medusa"
140
141	[[AC:Theatre]]
142	->''"This above all: to thine own self be true,\
143	And it must follow, as the night the day,\
144	Thou canst not then be false to any man."''
145	-->-- '''Polonius''', ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', [[HypocriticalHumor after a monologue's worth of advice]]
146
147	->''"Today is going to be a good day, and here's why: because today… today at least you're you. No hiding, no lying. Just you. And that's enough."''
148	-->-- '''Evan Hansen''', ''Theatre/DearEvanHansen''
149
150	[[AC:Video Games]]
151
152	->''"Do not let others tell you how to act in life, especially if they are trying to change you. Unless you act like a prick, then listen to your friends."''
153	-->--'''Joule''', ''VideoGame/AgentsOfMayhem''
154
155	-> '''Susie''': HAHAHA!! How's it taste, idiot?! Man, I'm gonna relish this FOREVER! How's it feel to be like the rest of us, idiot? All those times you acted so high and mighty? You're not! Face it! You're just as big a dumbass as the rest of us!
156	-> '''Berdly''': ...fine. I...I'm not that smart. I never was. THERE, are you happy?! I...I...I just...I used to be a forgettable little bluebird. Nobody even remembered my name. Then...one day came the spelling bee Noelle and I studied for. When it came down to the two of us...She got nervous and couldn't speak. She lost. And I won. That was when I tasted it. The praise. The glory. The...superiority! The addictive power of being...SMART! Since then, year after year, I've been number one in the class. ...but it's only because Noelle helps me study. She's...the real smart kid. But everyone's expectations for ME are so high now...What am I going to do once I go somewhere without her? That's...why I wanted to make a new world. For us. A world where we'll ALWAYS be number one and number two! But..I was so wrapped up in that, I got tricked by Queen. [[HeelRealization Maybe I did just like being superior.]] Maybe I am...just...an idiot.
157	-> '''Lancer''': Don't cry, chicken nugget man! All of us are idiots, too.
158	-> '''Susie''': ...I mean, I dunno about everybody else, but...Whether you're the smart kid or not. We couldn't care less. Screw up as much as you want, honestly.
159	-> '''Berdly''': Susie? You...you'd...accept me? Even if I'm...dumb?
160	-> '''Susie''': Uh...y..yeah? It's like when your sister gets cursed in [[VideoGame/DragonQuest Dragon Blazers 2.]] Even if her stats suck, she's still your party member.
161	-->-- ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}''
162
163	->''"Don't try to be someone you are not. Try to be even more of who you are."''
164	-->-- '''Snow Villers''', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII''
165
166	[[AC:Web Animation]]
167	->'''The Blacksmith:''' Your time is running out. You must choose. Choose for yourself one who can leave your burdens behind... or choose one who will be enough to bear them.
168	->''(Later...)''
169	->'''Ruby:''' What happens... if I choose me?
170	->'''The Blacksmith:''' Then maybe... that girl is enough.
171	-->--''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', [[Recap/RWBYV9E10OfSolitudeAndSelf "Of Solitude and Self"]]
172
173	[[AC:Web Original]]
174	->'''[[http://cucumber.gigidigi.com/cq/page-444/ Panpipe]]:''' I... I'm sorry. I just wanted people to think--\
175	'''Nautilus:''' You can't make the world like you, Panpipe. All you can do is be true to your heart. [[ParodiedTrope And then, some people still won't like you!]] ''Ever!'' But if you like yourself, it's really not so bad.
176	-->-- ''Webcomic/CucumberQuest''
177
178	[[AC:Western Animation]]
179	->'''Marge:''' You'll make plenty of friends, as long as you be yourself.\
180	''[Marge leaves]''\
181	'''Lisa:''' Be yourself? [[SubvertedTrope I've been myself for 8 years and it's never helped me]]! Lousy advice...
182	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
183
184	->'''Firefly:''' Being yourself is mighty fine. That's the way you really shine!\
185	'''Lily Lightly:''' Well, I guess it's true, let's light the world up, me and you! We will\
186	'''Firefly and Lily:''' shine! Shine on! Shine our light with all our might!
187	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyG3'', "Come Back, Lily Lightly"
188
189	->''"There's no such thing as 'perfect'. You're beautiful as you are, Courage. With all your imperfections, you can do anything."''
190	-->-- '''The fish in the bathtub''', ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog''
191
192	->'''Tenzin:''' Dad, I've failed you. I am no spiritual leader, and I've let the world down. I'll never be the man you were.\
193	'''Aang:''' You are right. You are trying to hold on to a false perception of yourself. You are not me, and you should not ''be'' me. You are ''Tenzin''.\
194	'''Tenzin:''' I am not a reflection of my father. I am Tenzin. ''(With rising confidence)'' I am Tenzin!
195	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': "Darkness Falls"
196
197	->'''Connie:''' Will you two can it?!\
198	'''Lapis:''' That's not a very Steven thing to say.\
199	'''Connie:''' I don't care! So I'm not Steven. Maybe he's really great at helping people work out these arguments, maybe he's really patient and caring, even though it must be hard for him having to be the adult for [[ImmortalImmaturity a bunch of super-powered children!]]\
200	'''Lapis:''' We're both thousands of years older than you.\
201	'''Connie:''' Then act like it! Be the Gems you've been for thousands of years instead of playing this silly game. It's impossible trying to solve problems if we're just trying to copy other people. What's the point of this? We'll never be the Crystal Gems. We're just... the Crystal Temps. But we have our own way of doing things. So, let's go back to that, to fix this mess we made.
202	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', "The New Crystal Gems"
203
204	->''Don't you raise your shield at me! I only want you to be yourself! If you can't do that... '''I'll do it [[AssimilationPlot FOR YOU!!]]'''''
205	-->-- '''White Diamond''', to [[spoiler:Pink Steven]], ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', "Change Your Mind"
206
207	->''♫ Oh, yeah\
208	Tried being someone else\
209	But it didn't go well\
210	I'd much rather be myself\
211	Oh, yeah\
212	'Cause I'm cool, I'm legit\
213	Like peanut butter jelly\
214	I'm the perfect fit\
215	Oh, yeah\
216	Tried changing what I had\
217	But it only made me sad\
218	Turns out I am really rad\
219	Oh, yeah\
220	'Cause I'm cool, I'm legit\
221	No one can do it better\
222	I'm the perfect fit ♫''
223	-->--'''The Tillermans, "Perfect Fit"''', ''WesternAnimation/CentralPark'', Season 3 "[[Recap/CentralParkS3E11ThePuffsGoPoof The Puffs Go Poof]]"
224
225	->''♫ If you could only see\
226	What it's like to be.\
227	Be yourself, as you are.♫''
228	-->-- '''Blythe Baxter''', ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetshop2012''
229
230	[[AC:Real Life]]
231	->''"If you go to the grocery store and you stand in front of the lunch meat section for too long, you start to get really pissed off at turkeys. You see, like, turkey ham, turkey pastrami, turkey bologna. Someone needs to tell the turkeys, 'Man, just be yourself!'"''
232	-->-- '''Creator/MitchHedberg'''
233
234	->''"All of this gruesome grotesquerie is incredibly wrapped up into a story that grunts and groans and laboriously offers up a Moral at the film's end, which is, and I quote: "It's not about what you are, it's about who you are." I could have told you that."''
235	-->-- '''Creator/RogerEbert''''s [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091021/REVIEWS/910219997 review]] of ''Literature/CirqueDuFreak: The Vampire's Assistant''.
236
237	->''"Always be yourself, unless you suck."''
238	-->-- '''Creator/JossWhedon'''
239
240	->''"Be yourself. Everybody else is already taken."''
241	-->-- Often misattributed to '''Creator/OscarWilde'''
242
243	->''"Be who you are and say what you think, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."''
244	-->-- '''Creator/DrSeuss'''
245
246	->''"Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else."''
247	-->-- '''Creator/JudyGarland'''
248
249	->''"Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand."''
250	-->-- '''Creator/{{Banksy}}'''
251
252	->''"So it's not just an [[EthicalSlut open relationship]] from a sexual standpoint, it's an open relationship in terms of dialog that you're having with your spouse, your mate, you mate, your daughters, your mothers, your fathers, because we always hear "be someone important" or "be yourself" but that's only [[FairForItsDay when]] it's politically correct-when you've fallen into the boundaries of what people expect of you as opposed to you being yourself when it's against the proverbial norm but what we find is against the norm is really the norm."''
253	-->-- '''Mo'Nique''', ''[[http://www.essence.com/2016/01/15/monique-sets-record-straight-her-open-marriage-new-podcast-it-was-my-idea Mo'Nique Sets The Record Straight On Her Open Marriage In New Podcast: "It Was My Idea"]]''

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