Quotes About Authenticity

I never find sincerity offensive... so, be sincere.

I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.

I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I'm not selling out.

The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.

I don't want to sign something just because everyone is looking forward to what I sign next. When I take up a project, I am all in to deliver the best I can with sincerity and honesty.

Acting is my profession; I enact all roles with sincerity.

I could write a joke song really easily, but I think something that might be true for my generation is that there's a certain irony or detachedness expected of us, even though we really feel sincere. So the only way to sincerity is through a joke.

Whatever film you do, even if it's a children's film, you do with the same amount of sincerity.

I hope people will find sincerity and authenticity in my music.

Fashion, which often seems to be on a path to be bigger, more Instagram-ready, can also achieve its best through sincerity.

I try to bring all my sincerity to the character I play. That way, I am dedicated.

Sephora has always been the best, in the sense that they love me for me and that they let me be me. That's the coolest part. I think that's why the products are great - because there's a sincerity and authenticity.

I liked Benitez's sincerity. I identified with him because he is a very direct and honest person.

An actor must have the sincerity to what he is doing. So you can't take things lightly, you have to be serious every time.

If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

I'm not like a university-educated scholar. I just sing what I see.

You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.

I don't add any deliberate nuances to the way I sing. I've seen so much and been all over the world, but I'm glued to my roots, and that comes across.

To sing like a hillbilly, you had to have lived like a hillbilly. You had to have smelt a lot of mule manure.

I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.

I won't sing if I don't feel it, so there's always so much sadness and so much sentiment behind it all.

If you heard me sing, you would just plug your ears and run, screaming, the other way. I promise.

You gotta 'be' country music - you can't just sing it.

I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.