Quotes About Authenticity

One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.

It's totally produced now. It's almost like a conveyor belt of what metal's supposed to be like these days. It's not music to me.

I'm totally myself.

I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.

I feel like I see so much online of people being cynical about never being able to find love, and it's become, like, cool. You don't need it by any means. You can live without it, and you can totally be self-independent and happy. But you can also be in a great relationship that's rewarding and loving and caring - and that exists.

Fighters can say whatever, but what they are feeling inside, it's totally different.

During the era when women were burning their bras - which, by the way, they never actually did - but when women were first becoming liberated, I was 23. And I met a woman who asked, 'Don't you feel bad because you're sort of acting like the stupid airhead blonde?' And I totally surprised myself. I said, 'Liberation can also come from the inside.'

Personally, I wouldn't mind going on stage naked, totally naked.

Everyone gets scared from time to time. It's totally normal, and anyone who says otherwise is a liar.

You won't ever see me being totally sexy on 'Rookie Blue.' It's not right for the character, anyway.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don't always feel like I'm a success. That's right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I've just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I'm trying to communicate with.

Sean Chercover

If you start thinking of your image, or what the mysterious 'they' out there are thinking of you, you're in a trap. What's important is that you're doing the work that's best for you.

It's all about how you feel, not how you look

So often, in our quest to be more popular and to be part of the "in-group," we lose sight of things that are far more important…

Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream?, or are you really as beautiful us you seem?

If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You'll end up doing what everyone else is doing.

Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.

I'm at peace with myself because what I talk about is the way I live.

They're so obsessed with living to impress that they've forgotten to be alive.

The whole world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

We all face a fundamental choice in our lives. Do we take the path prescribed by our "now you're supposed to" society, or do we take our own path to toward the life we feel we ought to be living?

We all face a fundamental choice in our lives. Do we take the path prescribed by our "now you're supposed to" society, or do we take our own path toward the life we feel we ought to be living?