Quotes About Authenticity

I think it's just really good to be honest with yourself and if I'm not feeling up for something I have no problem staying in my room in ordering some food and relaxing and managing my energy and kind of just checking in with myself throughout the day.

One has to be honest to the story and choose actors accordingly.

If there is one thing I have learnt, it's that you have to be honest.

To be honest, the acoustic stuff's my favorite thing to do.

I have exposed so much of my own real life. Like I feel like I always try to be honest and I always try to talk about where I am at and what I want.

If you're trying to appeal to my generation you've got to be honest.

I'm not a fan of social media, to be honest.

My instinct is to be honest and make fun of things.

Five billion people have played Hamlet. 'To be or not to be.' And how do you do that and find your way into your own journey, your own way of telling it?

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.

The best advice Drake's given anybody is to know yourself. It's the most important thing to live by.

I try my best to live by the principle that if you're going to be telling a story that you didn't live, tell it with as much respect as you can for the people who did live it.

I've realized I'm not going to please everyone; not everyone's going to love me.

You can't please everyone. You're not an avocado. Not everyone's going to love you.

To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.

I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so insulting and condescending, and so meaningless. My characters don't learn to love each other or themselves.

Real respects real, so if you can get Memphis to love you, you have to have something real there. Memphis doesn't just support anybody.

I have come to accept the real me. I have come to love the real me. I now celebrate the real me.

Everyone should feel comfortable in their own skin. Whether there are social standards set in place that act against that, it doesn't matter because the people that love you for who you are are going to love you always, and you should love yourself always.

Anyone I'm with has to love my son just as much as they love me, if not more, because I don't play any games with King.

I've grown to love L.A., but it's the most socially awkward place. All these people have come there not to be something but to pretend to be someone trying to be someone.

When I was on 'The View,' I went backstage to Whoopi Goldberg's dressing room, and she told me, 'People are going to love what you do, and people are going to hate what you do, but you have to keep doing it. You have to stand up and do what you know is true, despite what people are going to say.' And I'm taking that into every aspect of my life.