Quotes About Authenticity

I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card.

Nobody wants to rock their own life. But, on the other hand, when your life does get rocked, it affords you a certain level of emotional honesty. It liberates you to be who you really are.

I'm always going for truth and honesty.

Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.

Even in fiction, I feel rigorous honesty applies. It doesn't apply to facts; it applies to what I think of as not telling emotional lies, which is a funny business.

I feel like I have some stuff that matches 'Fight Song,' not in necessarily the message exactly but in the emotion and honesty.

I think people appreciate honesty.

Acting means nothing unless it's truth. And honesty.

I want people to see an honesty within me. I'm not trying to be the next Sam Cooke or Otis Redding.

People like my honesty. When I'm sane, I'm very much myself.

Anytime I hear songs that are so honest, whether they make the person who's singing it look good or not, there's a level of honesty that resonates with people.

I don't like people lying; I like honesty.

I've always been very honest about what's good and bad in my writing. That honesty might have made me sound arrogant sometimes, when I was talking about work I thought was good.

The only responsible way to write about anything is with honesty.

There's an honesty in our lyrics, and that will never change.

I've always felt that acting is acting, at the end of the day, so whether you're doing comedy or heavy drama or anything else in between, you always have to bring a semblance of honesty to it. It's all make believe.

The danger with genre is playing genre instead of playing the honesty of what's going on.

I'd like to think people know what I stand for, which is straight-talking honesty and telling you not just what you want to hear but where it is at.

What all my favorite comedians have in common is extraordinary honesty.

It doesn't matter if you're a star or not; what is important is that you do your job with absolute honesty.

I think the best writing is full of honesty and conviction. A lot of people are afraid to reveal much of themselves.

People like a bit of honesty in films.

I don't want to sign four films at a time, as acting is an art, and art cannot be done without honesty.

I think what kids who like heavy music are really looking for is the honesty and candour of it.