Quotes About Authenticity

When you have confidence, when you feel loved by people, you can tell them the truth. It's important that I can say the photo isn't beautiful or the photo shoot sucks.

Whoever loves you now—and you must also love yourself—will love the truth of you.

I like to tell myself that truth is in the irregularity and the unexpected, and I try to look for both.

If you got the truth, you put it out there, and everybody says, "Oh, my God. That's me." And then they improvise also. They take off, as well.

Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?

The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been consolidated by a cement composed of baser materials.

I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.

Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.

Somehow there is a certain honesty underground, a certain truth.

I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well.

The truth has no form, you know. It's not like walking around trying to actually ask for favors and to be acknowledged, it is what it is.

I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.

American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either the truth or nothing.

Truth is fine. Absolutely.

I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.

Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.

I'm a fan of the truth... even if it's painfully hard to accept.

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

I learned that pretending you don't have feelings makes you feel unhappy and unfulfilled and, ultimately, is what really makes you vulnerable because you are hiding from the truth.

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can.

A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth.