Quotes About Authenticity

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

I try to be as honest as I can in writing. That's what ends up translating and relating to people.

I hate publicity. The only publicity must be through my work. I can only talk about myself in relation to work. I know about work - but I don't know about me.

I am footballer, not a public relations person.

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.

I have my relationship with God and myself, and that's what matters to me. I really don't care what most people think.

It defiantly helps the chemistry onscreen if the audience can tell if the relationship is real or not.

Relationships feed on credibility, honesty, and consistency.

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

There are no shortcuts to genuine friendship. Relationships are built over time.

There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.

Jesus said, 'Greater things of these you shall do...' Become a peace builder, a bridge builder, not a destroyer, and the way you do that is through friendships and relationships, and through authentic character.

I don't want to make it sound like a hotbed of lesbianism but I did have a number of relationships.

Life is too short to be in relationships where you feel this isn't fully right.

I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.

I came out to my parents as gay, and then I realized, you know, four or five years later, that I wasn't really happy, no relationships were working, and there was something missing in my life, and you know, I was doing drag, performing and stuff, and I realized through that arc that I was much happier doing that.

A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.

People aren't defined by their relationship. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships.

It's important to tell queer stories and to show queer relationships in a very normal setting.

I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships.

Once you get to that point when you can just be yourself and relax, I just think that you're so much happier in general.

I feel like, if the guys can look at me in the huddle and see a calm and collected face, that they're going to relax a little bit. The way I look at it, leadership and being that guy is, don't be someone you're not. Don't be a hoorah guy jumping around and clapping your hands if you're not that guy.

I'm alright with being disliked rather than trying to be perfect, because you get to relax then.

Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology.