Quotes About Authenticity

Only lovers know the value and magnanimity of truth.

Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see.

Tell the truth, even if they do look at you funny.

It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it.

So I need the story, Jenna. I need the truth. Right, like the two are the same thing.

I know I'll astonish everyone by talking like this, but it's God's truth. Honors have never tempted me and I've never sought them.

It always feels good to tell you the truth. If I can't share it with you, it feels like it didn't happen.

Truth is love's mother, and we all know it is not wise to lie to anyone's mother.

I learned that telling the truth was a big part of loving yourself.

Truth is it's own witness.

[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist.

If you did not have any personality, you would have a tremendous presence. The more rigid your personality, the more constipated your whole being.

You can't direct yourself but if you're in the moment and you feel it, there's nothing more you can do but hope there was some truth captured for the screen.

The moment I do any puppy dog acting, I think the joke is dead. It's in the truth of how I play it, and the real painful honesty that I approach my performance with.

The essence of a novelist is to invent things and speak the truth, at the same time.

The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth. [Fr., Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires ou des personnes est souvent la verite.]

As ugly as the truth is, it's even uglier when someone says out loud what you've been thinking to yourself.

As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.

The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.

Adhere to the Truth rather than to the personality, and take to heart the Truth rather than the authority of another.