Quotes About Authenticity

I'm not one who likes to be honored, to be honest with you. That's never been who I am.

I am not that savvy, to be honest. I know what I believe in, and I try to follow people who do the same.

If I don't think something's worth saying, I don't think it's quite there, I'd rather just not say it, to be honest. In that case, I'd rather wait 'till the thought is ready, 'till I feel like I'm happy with everything.

Because I came to acting quite late, I kind of think one of the few attributes that I do have is that I try to be honest with the character, with the writing. I'm not a tricksy actor; I'm not exactly a scenery-chewing kind of actor.

Be it 120 frames or 24 frames or film or theatre, you're trying to be a fully formed human being and trying to be honest.

I want to be a female artist who is honest. I want to encourage other girls to be honest with who they are and not try to be picture perfect, because it's a woman's imperfections that make her perfect anyway.

I try to be honest in what I do and in everything I do. I try to be honest with my family.

I think it's just funny, the things that come out of people's mouths, whether it's a politician, whether it's an average person on the street - and to be honest with you, sometimes these politicians sound like average people on the street.

I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.

I felt like a failure for so long because I wasn't able to access myself in the way I knew I would have if I was going to make music that mattered. I knew I was going to have to learn how to be honest.

I realised that you have to be honest. When you're being open, that's when people connect with you. You just have to be yourself.

Self-confidence is something I've always lacked in. But finally, at some point, I just decided to be honest.

If there's a responsibility, it's just to be honest in what I've experienced and to put it in my work.

Growing up, I felt like I couldn't talk about certain things until I had the outlets to do so. Once you're able to be honest and say things as they are, it removes this crazy stigma and fear around it.

I don't want to lie. Always, I want to be honest and I say,I don't think about tomorrow. I don't think about next season.'

Deciding to be honest was one of the hardest decisions I have ever made, and also the most important.

If you want me to be honest, be honest with me.

Teachers, people, and, to be honest, some of my classmates didn't understand me. I was the person they didn't like because I would always speak my mind and had a lot of energy. I'd be bouncing around all the time, being very opinionated.

I so desperately wanted to be honest, and I so desperately wanted to love myself and accept myself for who I was.

I never had any thought behind anything I did in the beginning, to be honest.

The rankings - they don't mean crap, to be honest.

To be honest, even I was tanned three shades darker in 'Love Sonia.' The fact that people were able to connect to my character was very important. Why should we not have that kind of makeup?

I can confidently say that if there is any criticism levelled at me, then I have done that already. It's what happens when you try to be honest and hard-working.

We need people in the game to be honest, to call things as they are.