Quotes About Authenticity

A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.

Humility is truth.

People say they hate having fake people around, but when you keep it real, they hate you even more. People don't like the truth.

People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Exactitude is not truth.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

There's is a fine line between living one's truth and looking good.

Documentary is reality. It shows the truth.

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Truth never changes. Truth always sets people free.

You can't argue with the truth.

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

I feel like my mission is to be honest with myself. My mission is to share my truth - share, not give. I think that's what an artist is supposed to do: I think they share.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

I feel a responsibility for telling the truth.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.