Quotes About Authenticity

I have no love for a friend who loves in words alone.

No siento yo amor por la que sólo con palabras ama. [...] No mueras tú conmigo ni hagas tuyo un acto en el que no pusiste tu mano.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Tu peux manquer de foi à d'autres, avec moi sois toujours vrai.

My mother did not look away and she did not pretend.

my whole authorship pertains to Christianity, to the issue: becoming a Christian, with direct and indirect polemical aim at that enormous illusion, Christendom-- Soren Kierkegaard The Point of View for My Work as an Author, (The Single Individual)

If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd.

There is a view of life which conceives that where the crowd is, there is also truth. There is another view of life which conceives that wherever there is a crowd, there is untruth.

What could be worse than having to be seen resorting to your own life.

The purpose of this life and all its experiences is not to make ourselves what we think we should be. It is to unfold who we already are.

Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in my life. Maybe that's the thing with liberation. It comes at a price.

I've had my say out, and I shall be the' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to be corked up forever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel.

I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track.

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

The key thing about life is to be true to a set of beliefs. And to be genuine.

I try to be more goofy when I'm on set now that I'm more comfortable. In real life, I'm so goofy and super weird. I'm never mean but people don't see the weird side of me.

What an actor says is much, much less important than a life, so that's the great use for improvisation; you go, you find the life and then you add the words.

When I'm on camera, I have to do things pretty much the way I do things in everyday life. It gives the audience someone real to identify with.

What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.

When I've done somewhat scripted stuff, it feels a little flat. It feels like there's not much life behind it.

To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.

You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.

I can build a happy life only on the foundation of my own nature.

I think self-knowledge is a key to happiness.We can build happy lives only on the foundation of our own natures, our own values, and our own interests.