Quotes About Authenticity

If you don't listen to yourself, it's unlikely that anyone else will. Listening to yourself means not only respecting your own feelings but also getting to know something about your style of communicating.

Sir Albert)Howard put it this way:Artificial manures (synthetic fertilizers)lead inevitably to artificial nutrition, artificial food, artificial animals and finally to artificial men and women.

Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.

How can we be certain, he was suggesting, that our experience of consciousness is "authentic"? The answer is we can't;

You can't regulate integrity

I hope that, even when I'm simply just Kwon Ji-yong, I can be someone who still shines even without all these 'flashy' costumes on.

Someone like Ashlee Simpson, she lip-synchs on 'Saturday Night Live,' gets totally called out la Milli Vanilli, and no one really cares that much. It doesn't make me hate Ashlee; she's just taking instructions.

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

Indian junk food is my sin, even though I pretend to like Japanese.

The biggest cardinal sin is not being in the moment, whether in life or on-screen. You owe it to your fellow actor that if they feed you something, you give them an earnest response to what they've said to you as opposed to what you wanted to do before they ever showed up.

Here's the mark that a lot of people miss nowadays. Producers missed. They leave out the heart and soul. And that's what I learned from Sammy Davis, Jr., from Frank Sinatra, is when you went to go see those shows, you got to know them.

I don't try to copy anybody - I mean, I'm not trying to become another Sinatra. I merely sing the way I speak.

If Sinatra had packed in his style because there were a load of counterfeit Sinatras about, he would have stopped singing in 1956 or whatever.

I drive the same car that I've driven since I was 16. That's who I am.

If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.

When I write a book... it's the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want to hear or read. Hopefully the audience comes along, since that's the only way you can write righteously. I have to ask, 'What do I want to hear?' not 'What do people want to hear?'

The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere.

The more I have a sincere connection to something, the less acting is required. And the more it's about creating the space to feel that connection and to feel that shift from yourself. And start interpreting things through new eyes.

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

If you're not sincere with it, you shouldn't say anything at all.

Malice is always authentic and sincere.

Being sincere and true to yourself is a scary thing but, ultimately, a rewarding one.

I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.