Quotes About Authenticity

I'm tired of having a plan. I've been planning my whole life, and it isn't working. I just want to sit back and breathe for a minute, figure out who the hell I am.

I smile. "You were always so good at not covering up." Penny's smile is sad and a little off. "It's the antidepressants. They've obliterated whatever filters I have left.

So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy and Serenity.

The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer's personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really would, could she have come on a magic carpet, instead of sending her proxy in ink-made characters on mere paper.

My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

Don't let them say you ain't beautiful. They can all get fu#ked just stay true to you.

I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

And I am, whatever you say I am If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?

God gave you them shoes to fit you, so put them on and wear them. Be yourself man, be proud of who you are. Even if it sounds corny, don't let no one tell you, you ain't beautiful.

My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has become a place where only what is cool is good. Do you cut the movie on the basis of the beat of modernity or the basis of the beat of your own heart?

Here's what I think I'm having trouble with: this is what happiness is. When I was a kid, I thought I'd just get happier and happier as I got older, and have more things to be happy about. I based this theory on observation of select adults. The problem with my results is that I couldn't tell the difference then between happy and fake-happy. Now I know you pretend to be just frigging ecstatic over everything, maybe because you're so glad it's not worse.

You can't change who you are, but you can surely make the best of it. And if you've got a thought, act on it.

Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.

There's not a thing wrong with you, you're right the whole way through.

he had discovered some astonishing things. It was possible for Vere Ashleigh to find friendship with the type of man he had formerly disliked; it was possible to earn the respect and camaraderie of such men by being himself. An imposter they would not tolerate; a producer of life-like pen-portraits they had taken to their hearts.

I think that's such a beautiful sentiment. Love should only last as long as a very expensive and impractical bikini that looks stunning, but dissolves in the sea within days. So many pop songs tell of this terrible, tiresome love that they want to last forever. But that just makes me think of long-life milk, acrid and fake. Love should be like a movie trailer. Even if the film's a stinker, you get the best laughs and the biggest explosions in the space of two minutes.

You have to be yourself," she said, more than half wishing her nature was as brave as his. "Once you start pretending, you tend to get stuck with it.

You can't trust actors.