Quotes About Authenticity

I could have my hair really short. I didn't have to wear dresses, I could wear baggy old T-shirts and ripped trousers and monkey boots and I was desirable to boys that were into the same stuff.

Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.

When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'

I feel that David took a risk with me. I have a sense that by starting off in the theatre and going off to do films you are seen to sell out in some way. I don't hold truck with that, but you can't stop people from feeling it.

If the right idea comes up, and it feels true to talk about somebody being in a truck, and that's the only way to tell the story, then I will reluctantly tell the story that way.

I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management.

Honestly, my idea of a fun night out is something like being in the middle of America in a pickup truck with a few friends.

It's important for me to be respected and to be thought of as authentic and true to myself. So even if country music won't play my music, I'm not gonna go and record a party song or a truck song just to try to get spins. I have to be authentic to myself.

I do talk like a truck driver sometimes, or I curse. What can I say?

From 1965 to 1974, I served the best possible apprenticeship for an actor. I learned firsthand how a truck driver lives, what a bartender does, how a salesman thinks. I had to make a life inside those jobs, not just pretend.

I dislike all those cookie-cutter Nashville songs. You know the ones: about tight jeans and pick-up trucks.

In tough times, that's when you see true colours and personality.

I'll always keep fighting, keep being myself and be as respectful as I can be to stay as true to myself as I can and stay humble.

I exaggerate when I'm angry, but I've never gone around telling people things that aren't true about me.

I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

No life is perfect; we all have our problems and issues, and I believe that it's good to be true to who you are.

Always be original. Never duplicate what you've seen another actor do. Be true to the character that you've been given, and the rest will come easy.

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

Holding true to what you believe - even in a big city - is so important.

The true identity theft is not financial. It's not in cyberspace. It's spiritual. It's been taken.

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

You have to stay true to your heritage; that's what your brand is about.

It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.