Quotes About Authenticity

I am not a calm, happy person. I am complicated.

Sometimes it's hard to admit, though, especially if you're known as a happy person, because you feel you're letting people down if you're not being happy 24 hours a day.

It's hard being a Barbie doll all the time.

It's not a hard job to be yourself.

In life, we are told to do or be so many different things and expected to fit so many different expectations; I think that's something I always had a hard time with.

Believe me, when I finish shooting 'Mad Men,' there's a huge chunk of time where I have a really hard time leaving my house without fake lashes on. Which is a complex because I'm not very good at applying fake lashes.

I just feel like sometimes people don't want to hear the truth. It's hard when you hear the truth. People want to hear what they want to hear. Sometimes I have a hard time with that because I'm very honest.

I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.

I have a hard time writing happy things. I really just don't find it that interesting for me personally to write about that.

I have a hard time saying I'm going to make a whole record of just rock-out songs, because that gets boring, you know? And my voice doesn't scream very well.

Behind the scenes, I'm not a politicker. I have a very hard time telling somebody they're right when I feel they're wrong, and I have a very hard time telling somebody they're good when I feel they're not. That's just me.

I learned the hard way that taking shortcuts and living for free is not really living free.

Everyone says marriage is hard work, but they don't tell you that actually being yourself and respecting yourself is hard work.

My view is that you have to deal with who you are. It's hard work, in a way, but somebody has to do it.

It's hard work to find your own voice and not to copycat anything.

I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?

I could lie and tell you I'm a hardcore gamer - I'm not.

Drama is hard for me. Crying is much harder for me than laughter.

I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.

There's nothing harder than going on TV and saying something that you don't believe. I don't do that anymore.

I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal. And to me that's something I'm working on now. I'm not really that difficult or complex a person, so it's interesting to me that it's just so much harder for me to play an everygirl.

For the most part, having more money and more fame make your life harder. It just does. I've seen it happen with people. You know, it's so hard to stay normal. It's so hard to stay happy. It's hard to remember why you were doing what you did in the first place.

I always hope people will like me, and I'm always afraid they will think I'm a fraud. I try harder than perhaps I should to make people like me, then it backfires. They think I'm a buffoon.

Somebody's real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.