Quotes About Authenticity

I have no trouble selling out—I'm a benevolent hack, in a certain way—but I want to pander for something I believe in.

You don't need anyone's permission to be exactly who you want to be

If I meet someone at a bus stop, I want to really meet that person. I don't want to be 'Hugh Jackman, the famous actor.'

Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.

The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that.

I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.

I don't feel any pressure to be funny at all. I'm funny because I want to be funny. I could sit here and be serious for an hour and you would go away and make me much funnier than I am.

People want the truth, even if they disagree.

In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story.

A real turnoff for guys is any girl who is way too into them. Like, you're being way too nice. Guys, as well as girls, like that sense of badness. I want a good girl, who can be a little bad.

It's hard to accept yourself as someone you don't desire / As someone you don't want to be.

Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.

People want more real artistes. They want girls who can actually sing and play an instrument and write their own songs - that's not fake and manufactured anymore".

Success is about making your life a special version of unique that fits who you are - not what other people want you to be.

When I wear jeans I want to look like a man, not a child.

I get so used to saying what I think people want to hear, I forget they might just want the truth sometimes.

Our opportunity now is to decide to change what we want, to seek what we actually came here to experience, rather than what we've been told by our culture that we are supposed to be experiencing.

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.

That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

If you make a choice that doesn't please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart - the people who truly love you want you to love yourself.

Accept your friends for who they are, not for who you want them to be.

Poems are the 'daredevil' of writing because a poem will say what nobody else wants to say.

When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in you is that intensity. I want to make portraits as intense as people.