Quotes About Authenticity

I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I'm a nerd... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.

I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. Almost every time that I start, I feel completely at sea. Always at the beginning I feel like a fraud, really, because I'm never sure how to get started.

I won't have a hard time being brutally honest. But I won't be mean. You don't have to be mean to be honest.

You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.

Don't judge. Don't stay inside all the time. Get out and let somebody know who you are.

Am I surprised that Joe Klein [pseudonymous author of Primary Colors which he denied writing] lied? No, because in my opinion reporters lie all the time.

I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.

I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.

I don't have the kinds of relationships that are built on any kind of false pretense, not to say that I haven't. I've had just as many as anybody else, but I haven't had them in a long time.

I just sing what I'm feeling at the time and hope my fans will like that and appreciate that.

I lead with my heart all the time.

For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.

I am not sure precisely why we need to have privacy, but everyone knows for sure that we need to relax and not have to put on our social, outwardly looking face all of the time.

Whenever you take the time to inspire someone, to aid them in their inner search, you'll find energy will come back to you - unless you are ego tripping or you are trying to manipulate them.

Social Networking should never replace face-to-face time.

A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don't feel great about, and it'll make you feel so bad it'll destroy you and kill you.

I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English - no time to shine as an authoress. I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.

So many of us invest a fortune making ourselves look good to the world, yet inside we are falling apart. It's time to invest on the inside.

Honesty towards yourself. Looking into your mirror, any time all the time will guide.

What is it that makes all of us end each day with the sense that we have not lived our time, but have been lived, used by what we do?

Whenever it feels uncomfortable to tell the truth, that's often the most important time to tell it.

I think men spend so much time passing for being men.

It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.

Getting away from being 'a good girl' is important because it's impossible to be a 'good girl' and a writer at the same time.