I Am The Way I Am Quotes:

I like you just the way I am.

- Jenny Mollen

source: Jenny Mollen (2014). “I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People”, St. Martin's Press

topic: I Like You, Way, Like You, I Am The Way I Am

I've always been pretty confident. I grew up in a family of strong women, so I was always taught to be proud of who I am, the way I am.

- Sofia Vergara

source: Source: www.glamour.com

topic: Strong Women, Who I Am, Proud, I Am The Way I Am

I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've always trusted it. Trust me now. There's a reason I am the way I am, and there's a reason I was born to you. There's always a reason. We belong together.

- Dean Koontz

topic: Differences, Together, Way, I Am The Way I Am

My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed to be the opposite of him. We made up before he died but I vowed to never raise my kids like how he raised me.

- Duane Chapman

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Father, Kids, Opposites, I Am The Way I Am

That's always been like a fascination to me - watching my family, three sisters and a brother and all growing up basically in the same situation and each one being so totally different and going on to completely different areas and directions. But for me to go into psychoanalysis really steadily, would be putting too much energy into trying to figure out why I am the way I am... Basically this is how I am and it's alright and I don't want to know why I'm this way.

- Jessica Lange

source: "New Again: Jessica Lange". Interview with Bob Colacello, Andy Warhol, Robert Hayes, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 29, 2016.

topic: Brother, Growing Up, Trying, Three Sisters, I Am The Way I Am

I've been a prima-dona. I was taken care of since I was 13. That's why I am the way I am today. I was spoiled, like a brat. I had anything I wanted. That's crazy to be that way all your life. Everybody's taking care of you, but manipulating you at the same time. Very few people have a life like that. Most people have to work like slaves their whole lives. I've never had a job in my life. What I know how to do is hurt big, tough men - in the street and off.

- Mike Tyson

source: "Tyson: 'My whole life has been a waste'" by Jon Saraceno, usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 2, 2005.

topic: Hurt, Jobs, Crazy, Brat, Tough Man

I'm hungry for purpose. I'm looking for still that reason that I bought a guitar and started a band, to fulfill a purpose, to manifest destiny as to who I am and why I am the way I am, and what I do. I think it's still about the music, the song and the story.

- Billy Ray Cyrus

source: "A Minute With: Billy Ray Cyrus on Miley and his "Hillbilly Heart". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, www.reuters.com. April 17, 2013.

topic: Song, Destiny, Thinking, Manifest Destiny, I Am The Way I Am

[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.

- Abigail McCarthy

topic: Age, Looks, Way, I Am The Way I Am