Quotes About Authenticity

One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.

I think you can laugh the hardest when you get closest to something real.

One of the hardest things to do is to be present and open and clear about who you are and what you stand for. We all have issues with that.

What I aspire to do, and what I try the hardest to do, is write stuff that's very personal in its way. I figure I can only say things the way I say them, so I'm trying to do something that is kind of anti-generic.

I think it's crucial to go out and explain to people who you are and where you come from, your hardships - that's the kind of stuff I connect to.

You don't buy a Harley with your mind, you buy it with your heart and your balls.

There is no harm in showing your feelings. It's not unmanly.

Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.

There is a real Harold Lee.

The blogosphere is real, and it can be really harsh on fakes... so, if you're a phoney, you're going to get your bell rung.

Life's harsh. You can't escape what you are and what you project.

For the longest time, I just felt like I had to be really, really harsh to be taken seriously as a CEO.

I'm getting in front of real, diverse audiences every night that I can, and I'm trying to make things from an angle where it's not the only thing I'm hanging my hat on.

I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.

And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.

I never really stop and think about should I put my hat on this way or that, not thinking that little JoJo down the street would be copying that. I'm more conscious about it now and tell the kids that it's not about the shoes or what kind of shoes... it's all about the dance.

I guess, somewhere along the line, when we first came out, somebody thought it was a crime to be young and not wear a cowboy hat and sing country music.

The first time I ever put on a cowboy hat for a video a lot of people on my team was like, 'Are you sure? You know, we don't want people we think we country.' I'm like, 'It's cute! I don't care what people think.'

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

I hate it when people tell you you're good when you know that you're not.

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

I hate cliche.

I was being called a shock comic. I hated that. It's so cheap and stupid.

I always hated that 'You Think You Know Me' music because it never fit me and what I actually listen to.