Quotes About Authenticity

She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart.

Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.

After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.

I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.

The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.

But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.

Love has no value in the absence of truth.

We have to speak the truth always, at any cost, and no matter what.

You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it.

The truth is overrated.

If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?

Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.

One can be committed to conformity or one can be committed to truth, but not both.

I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'

What is new is not always true, and what is true is not always new.

Truth never hurt the teller.

I'm not a politician; I'm an artist. So I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least.

I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least.

I've come to realize that people connect more when they know you're telling them the truth or some aspect of your story, some mutated version of how you are experiencing this life.

In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.

My job is to create a film, where we are capturing truth in performances.

Just because everybody else is engaged in a group hug with Barack Obama doesn't mean that somebody doesn't have to tell the truth.