Quotes About Authenticity

When I hear something that comes from me that makes me fall down off my chair, it's not often.

I hear people talk in my head, and I write it down. I choose where they live and how they dress to be real.

You hear people say, 'Well, I was going to say this, but I knew I couldn't get through it without crying.' Well, like, think of all the great things we didn't hear because of that.

It's funny, I hear people say I'm faking all this science stuff. That's the furthest thing from the truth. It's literally what I have to do to play and perform at this level.

For myself, for a long time... maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn't worth hearing, and I think everyone's voice is worth hearing. So if you've got something to say, say it from the rooftops.

I remember a lot of conversations where I was constantly hearing, 'You've gotta do this movie so you can do that movie. You've gotta make a big movie so you can make a small movie.' But I can't act like that.

I sing all the time. But maybe nobody's hearing it, because I'm singing in my car or in my house or whatever. I don't need the roar of the crowd, and I don't need to hear cheers to feel validated.

I hate hearing me talk when I'm not in character, and I can barely deal with hearing me as a character.

Whenever I think I'm going to get certain information out of a person, it's never as effective or comfortable as just having an open conversation, listening to them, being present, and being open to hearing something I didn't even know they were going to say.

I want not, that everybody hears about. Then I can't longer be myself.

I think people have a responsibility, if they write a letter, to make sure that they saw it themselves and it's not hearsay.

I only act from my heart.

I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed.

You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.

If I can't put my heart and soul into a film, I don't take it up.

It's not just in my industry... everything is so sensationalized that there's not a lot of heart and soul in a lot of things there used to be heart and soul in.

Be honest with yourself and the way you act when you hear music. That way, when people watch, they'll see something from your heart and soul, and as a result will communicate your feeling and thought much better.

I come from an era of music when it had heart and soul.

Never try to copy other writers, and never try to have a formula. It has to come from your heart and soul.

You can't mass produce somebody's heart and soul. It's a very delicate thing.

I would never want to put my name on a crappy thing. So, everything that has my name on it is pretty high quality: I put my heart and soul into it.

I don't think anybody's so cool that it's like, 'I've never had my heart broken.' Like, c'mon, that's crap.

Don't be afraid to be who you really are. Enjoy it and don't take it and yourself so seriously. I probably wouldn't have listened, but if I did, I would have saved myself some heartache along the way.

I'm not a purist - I like films that are narrated and films that aren't, films that are beautiful and films that are clumsy but heartfelt. Mostly, I just like a good story and good characters.