Quotes About Authenticity

I'm not going to write stuff like, "Mitch McConnell and I may disagree, but when we're off the clock, we're the best of friends—sometimes we go to dinner and Mitch will laugh so hard that milk shoots out of his nose." No, I'm not going to be writing clichés like that. Instead

People hear what we say but they see what we do. And seeing is believing.

There's no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth.

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

It's easy to fool the eye, but it's hard to fool the heart.

There were things that Pumpkin Head—now not Pumpkin Head anymore—had to do to be a girl. He had to be careful how he dressed, and how he acted. He had to be careful how he talked, and he always had to be calm. He was very frightened of what would happen if he didn't stay calm. For his face was really just a wonderful plastic one. The real Pumpkin Head was still inside, locked in, waiting to come out.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.

On peut faire la grève de tout, sauf d'être.

As long as it doesn't seem fake, the more we establish familiarity with our audience - not speaking to them from left field or from on high - the better chance we have that they'll listen to what we have to say. And possibly even accept it.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

On VIDEO: We zoom toward her as she takes off her bra clumsily. She's obviously embarrassed, but she's gone this far and there's no turning back. She stands there with her breasts exposed, trying to look defiant, but she's achingly vulnerable…

What, above all, I'm primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality. If I had to sum up my work, that's it, really. I'm taking the pith out of reality.

You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important then proving anything to anyone

When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love.

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.

I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.

Be who you like as long as you mean it.

Here my advice to young gay person or actor its to be yourself and not to be pressured into what other people want you to be

Go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly, you will be okay.

go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

I have set out to tell you the things you don't know about me, in the hope that, one day perhaps, you will feel able to tell someone what they don't know about you.