Quotes About Authenticity

There are people who have really high expectations for what we're doing. I have to not think about that so that I can be free and play around every day and not feel like I have to get it right. You want to be loose.

I'm not good at dressing up. I always feel a bit out of place. It's just not me - high heels and designer dresses - and I can't seem to get used to it.

I've been embracing gray hair since... high school, and I don't think that anything's changed since then.

Look, the term 'high-profile relationship' for us is laughable because we are probably the biggest scrubs when it comes to the way we live our lives.

We're pretty much Luddites when it comes to demos; we don't do anything too elaborate or high-tech.

The beautiful thing is I have sort of grown up. I don't care if I'm highbrow or not anymore.

I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.

At the highest level of your craft, you don't have to play games or make people feel small; you can just embrace.

It's very easy to get caught up in the world of press and maintaining an image and maintaining this highlight reel that the world expects.

I've never dyed my hair or even gotten highlights. All the products I need for my hair are at the drugstore!

I guess I just believe in Trixie Mattel, and I believe in the work. I don't think I'm better than anybody else, but I really think that I'm hilarious and beautiful.

I make no apology about being a hillbilly.

I'm not a Beverly Hills dude.

I felt the need to be more open and expressive of my feelings, not just about the hills and the countryside, but about the daily life.

Now if you know anything, or one thing about Perez Hilton, I think, is that I am not fake and I keep it real.

If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then you don't express yourself.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Speaking in Hindi has helped me a lot as I can tell my stories with the exact idiom in which they come to me. I think it also helps the audience when I am speaking in a language that is non-elite, so to say, as my stories are also from that perspective.

he would perhaps have known that to try too hard to make people good, is one way to make them worse; that the only way to make them good is to be good -- remembering well the beam and the mote; that the time for speaking comes rarely, the time for being never departs.

Then first I knew the delight of being lowly; of saying to myself, I am what I am, nothing more.

Those who are content with what they are, have the less concern about what they seem.

I am sorry I cannot think of a compliment to pay you-without lying, that is.

To deny oneself is to act no more from the standing ground of self.... No longing after the praise of men influence a single throb of the heart. Right deeds, and not the judgment thereupon; true words, and not what reception they may have, shall be our concern.

she might be treacherous too, but if I turned from every show of love lest it should be feigned, how was I ever to find the real love which must be somewhere in every world?