Quotes About Authenticity

Love never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time, while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.

When I meet people for the first time, I always put on my glasses because I feel like that's a little something extra between me and them. It's like the Laurence Dunbar poem "We Wear the Mask."

But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.

I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm

It was hard to sing like how I wanted to because playing live I had to just be at the top of my lungs all the time, and it made me sound like I had a really bad cold or something.

I've actually got turned down for a lot of roles because I'm not bubbly enough. People have told me to be more 'up', but I can't, really. I find it hard to be smiley and giggly all the time.

I like projects in which I can really act and not be me all the time.

For the record: I wear makeup. All. The. Time. But I do it in a way that looks natural.

I'm not a very good actor, so I break character all the time.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.

I can't tell you how many times in the '90s I'd meet somebody, we'd be having a nice time, and they'd sigh and go, 'This is exactly like Before Sunrise.' And I'd have to get up and leave.

I want to touch you in real time not find you on YouTube, I want to walk next to you in the mountains not friend you on Facebook.

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

I am very direct, to the point that I think I might make people uncomfortable! I do not know how not to be direct. I don't think there's time to waste.

I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.

In the long run, all I care about is making good music & not wasting time being in the public eye.

I've been a performer for a long time and I know when people are laughing from their guts, from the inside, and when their tuxedos are laughing.

I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing to be as in the dark about what happens next as your reader would be at that time.

I don't like to practice ahead of time what I'm going to say.

It's time to stop pretending I'm ok with things I'm not ok with like all insects and Foster the People.

I spend a lot of time saying to myself, "Well, is that really what I like to do? Is that really something that makes me happy?" and letting go of the things that don't make me happy.

I'm not great about putting on make-up, I look like a wreck half the time.

People will have an altered idea of who you are unless they really take time to get to know you, which of course they don't. They just get what they see, and they take that to the bank.