Quotes About Authenticity

Emotion did not play a part in truth, only reality did.

Talent is truth on display.

One of the joys of writing music is making your own mark. Study other stuff, immerse yourself in music and then tell your own truth.

Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

The genuine essence of truth never dies.

If you want the truth rather than merely something to say, you will have a good deal less to say.

I think for me the trick is not to aim to impress or to even try to make people laugh but instead to tell the truth.

It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.

I have been allowed to inhabit different shades of human nature and different colours of truth indifferent circumstances.

We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

I hate to force anything. A lot of people say that comedy is twenty percent truth, and eighty percent fallacy. I believe that you have to have lived through something to write about it.

I really respect anybody who stands by their truth.

That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.

People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to.

I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound.

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

A poet's first contract is with truth.

It's really nice that the truth can finally come out.

I only believe in telling the truth and being truthful.

In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.