Quotes About Authenticity

My elaboration of the story always conforms to the reality at its source. It is always close to the world, the life, the reality it describes. No matter where I go, I'm still holding up a mirror.

I want to explore marriage without the usual Hallmark Card platitudes. Life is difficult, and I like movies that acknowledge that.

Being in touch with our bodies, or more accurately, being our bodies, is how we know what is true. Harriet

Be it life or death, we crave only reality.

I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived.

Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.

This was real. And it was me. I had lived that life, and I had died that death. I was staring at the very end of me.

I pretty much have made a career out of playing real life people.

You can't just sing the song and live another life.

I live a real life so I forget to take pictures.

To me, honesty and the difficulty of honest communication are at the heart of both my life and my movies. The difficulty of being yourself.

I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.

I want life and in all its stupid sticky rawness.

How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page?

That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.

The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.

To come home and share life experiences with friends is the key to what makes me feel really alive.

You are perfectly entitled to invent your life and to claim that it's true.

That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.

People treat life as though it's the dress rehearsal for some big show. It's not. This is it.

Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It's me - either how I'm feeling then or once felt at some point in my life. It's all me.

Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage?

I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.

Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?