Quotes About Authenticity

People will always have an opinion, but you have to live life the way you want to. It's very easy to tell others what to do, but difficult to implement it on yourself.

Be yourself, find out what you love, find out what you really want to do, and go do it. And don't depend on people who don't have your best interests at heart.

I won't wear rings and jewelry on the stage because I don't want you looking at my hands. I want you hearing what I'm saying.

The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.

If a guy can't handle your crazy pictures, he's probably not someone you want in your life.

I'm not interested in trying to have people who might like other kinds of music follow me. I don't want to please them.

People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world...But you have to do what's right for you.

If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live.

And I'd like to leave quite a few friends behind and I hope I will. Other than that, I don't want nobody putting me on a pedestal when I leave here. I'm just one of the people ... just me.

It's just a campy blast. I just want to do as little as I can and make it good, and try not to sell out. I'm sure I will, but I'm just trying to postpone it.

If you write for yourself, you'll reach all the people you want to write for.

I think the best advice I got is that acting isn't acting - you just want to just be, you want to be just real, be in the moment and react.

People should dress the way they want. Any rules for age or shape are silly. If you walk out the door feeling good about yourself, that's what counts.

Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity...

I like what I like, I am who I am, I know what I want to do, you know what I'm saying?

The most important thing is to be happy and true to yourself. I don't want to look back at this in 30 years from now and say, 'I did it all to make them happy and I didn't enjoy.'

A friend of mine said Winn-Dixie is the way that people want the world to be and Tiger Rising is the way that it is.

I've always told Will, you can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be OK.

The real color of my hair is mouse. I always want to be ginger, which I was when I was born, or blond, because I live in L.A., and I want to look like I go surfing without any physical effort.

I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.

Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.

Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life?

I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff.

I am not a political figure, nor do I want to be one; but I come with my heart.