“Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.”
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Albert Finney (1936–2019) English actor
On attending the Academy Awards ceremony, quoted in The Times (24 March 2001).
Context: It seems to me a long way to go just to sit in a non-drinking, non-smoking environment on the offchance your name is called. … It's as if you are entered into a race you don't particularly want to run in. All the hoops you have to jump through on these occasions: it's not my favourite occupation. Walking around in the spotlight having to be me is not something I'm particularly comfortable with or desire. I'd sooner pretend to be someone else.
“If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.”
Alvin Toffler (1928–2016) American writer
“If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.”
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
George Alec Effinger book When Gravity Fails
Source: When Gravity Fails (1986), Chapter 1 (p. 4).
“A crime is something someone else commits.”
John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part Two, Chapter XX