Quotes About Authenticity

All I care about is providing and living every day. I don't care about world titles, being a legend, or being a hero.

I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.

Fame and success and titles stay with you, but they wear out eventually. In the end, all that you are left with is your character.

Titles are sometimes overrated.

My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.

I would have had an easier life if I were straight, but I would not be me. And I now like being myself better than the idea of being someone else, someone who, to be honest, I have neither the option of being nor the ability fully to imagine.

We all carry extreme heartache and demons. Instead of pretending like we don't, I like to be honest and real.

To be honest, once you are comfortable with the person you are and you know the things that you could offer to the world, none of the hate comments can really get to you.

You have to be honest about who you are.

To be a footballer was just a dream, and I don't believe in dreams. I only deal in what is real. To be honest, I've never thought about what I could get out of football or where it would take me. I just wanted to play. I'm the same now.

For content creators, it's really important to be honest. Your audience will appreciate if you're stingy with the brands you work with.

To be honest I don't really feel like I'm a part of the industry. I don't get awards because the powers that be don't really like me. I'm not like everyone else, I won't do what everyone else does.

I think you can overthink dealing with fame. To an extent, you've got to put yourself out there, but I feel like your work should really speak for itself, and I don't feel the need to go and make everyone like me because, to be honest, I'm not looking to be friends with the world. I'd much rather people watch the things that I'm in.

To be honest, 'Ready Steady Cook' was a great opportunity, but I did compromise myself. I was stood there quizzing chefs on what they were doing when I knew exactly what they were doing and why.

I don't like nicknames, to be honest.

I think the only way to achieve something that's classic is to be in the moment. You don't sit around and think, 'Oh, I hope this is remembered forever!' You just have to be honest, and I think that requires being in the moment.

Don't try to be anybody else, because that's what I do. I do me. I'm not trying to impress anybody. I'm not trying to please my pastor at church. I'm not trying to even please my mom, to be honest.

To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it?

For the actors, the talent is to serve the demands that I ask of them, to do it with naturality and truth, and to be honest when we were terrified.

I don't have friends, to be honest.

I don't really lie about anything, I have to be honest. I like to live with the truth.

You first and foremost need to be honest with the script because you don't want to do anything to screw up the basic fundamentals of the story. You don't want to create anything overly dramatic when you don't need to, and you don't want to create anything less dramatic than necessary, either.

When I think of artists I love, like J. Cole, it's the storytelling that grabs me. I want to be honest with my music.

You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.