Quotes About Authenticity

Everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London, I never tried to hide.

I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.

We're a pretty open-book family; we kind of lead with our hearts. There's nothing to hide.

Don't hide things from the fans, because they will find them, and they will not be your fan anymore. I've seen that happen with many artists.

I think I have too little to hide to be interesting.

I'm a goofball, and I have this huge personality, and I used to try to hide that. I used to try to kind of dim my light.

The idea that the more you hide something, the more it becomes something that's supposed to feel shameful is very true.

I learned to hide aspects of my personality. Playing with girls was fine, for example, but playing with their Barbies was something I could do only behind closed doors.

There's not a lot to hide behind when you make the sort of music we make.

I made a choice in my career to not get hair plugs and not hide the fact that I was balding, and I've managed to play all sorts of characters who have shaved heads.

I don't try to hide my feelings or what I think.

Once I started advancing in my career, I stopped wanting to hide from my reality.

As an actor, there's nothing worse than having to hide anything, because you're just so aware of it.

I have nothing to hide.

I've met people who are embarrassed of the stuff they've done, and they try to hide it. And I'm not embarrassed of anything.

Before I created Christine, I was actually really girly. Maybe I was trying to hide something, but I was trying too hard to be a girl, and I didn't know what it meant. I was afraid of being myself.

Often, we hide our personality and are afraid of bringing it out in our clothes. So, I think when people are fashionable, they are able to express themselves.

I wouldn't want a film to be made on my life, because I suppose I would only want them to show all the good things about me and hide the awful things, and that wouldn't be a very honest biopic, no?

If you hide, you won't find the eccentric people who will be your best friends.

I try to be me. I don't have anything to hide.

I'm an actress. You can hide behind your character when you're acting - you're not being yourself.

We can't hide from the truth.

Every gay man will tell you that 'coming out' is like a weight lifted from your shoulders and beng able to walk down the street knowing that there is nothing for me to hide has been a liberating experience.

Gay people in general, I think, like telling secrets because we have to hide a huge secret for the first half of our lives. Why would we want to keep any more?