Quotes About Authenticity

I get so many people coming up to me being like, Aahhh! And I'm like, what the hell? I'm just me!

I knew so many people were coming up to me because they knew who I was, not because they were fans of my music. That bothered me because I don't want to be a celebrity; I want to be an artist.

If you're going to do reality, you need to do the good and the bad. I think that's why so many people love Nicole and me. We're real and honest.

So many people are willing to sleepwalk through things and fall into the not human, not interesting choice. To make the really interesting choice, you have to fight.

So many people don't believe in themselves; people are worth so much more than what social media shows.

Sonya is the way she is for a reason and I love enlightening the fans on what those things are because so many people are going through similar experiences and have amazing stories I love to hear and relate to myself.

Social media gave so many people the right to say what they want in their mind. It just makes them be this other person on social media that they not in real life.

What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on some level. But it no longer compels me the way it did for so many years.

I'm angry because I was so scared for so many years about just being myself.

I've always been a little off, but it's worked really well for me, and it still works. After so many years, you have a look, you become a brand, la la la.

'Eleanor' was so much fun to write, because there's a brutal honesty about her. She's got no filters and no concept of social norms.

It's the best, it's so weird because, having your camera on constantly is known to be such a bad thing because it's like, 'Live in the moment,' but we genuinely have so much fun when we turn the camera on.

I don't understand why people spend so much time thinking about me if they don't like what I do. I couldn't care less about things I don't like.

Us and everyone in Hollywood puts so much time and effort and money into getting things to look just right and when you see it in someone's home, it looks like it was shot on an iPhone.

I spent so much time in the closet in the Marine Corps and I wasn't going to hide who I was. If it meant I was going to lose out on opportunities, they weren't meant to be.

Something happened when the memoirs of so-called ordinary people, like myself, suddenly hit the bestseller list.

I've made mistakes. Like, bringing people to your level who don't deserve to be there. They're trying to bite off your so-called fame, make a name off of you. I think I did a lot of that - allowed people to be relevant in my life who really aren't relevant to me at all.

By now, cooking has become so thickly crusted with pretension and gadgetry and marketing hype that the effort to reduce it to its most basic elements, to drive it into a corner and see it plainly, seemed like a good way to take hold of it again.

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He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. —Raymond Hull Imagine

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