Quotes About Authenticity

We're socially constructed to hide our flaws, and that breeds pain for a lot of people.

I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

Societal pressures can really force girls to look one specific way, when in reality there's not one way to be good.

I like to make films with characters that resemble real people, about societies that exist.

I'm just being myself, honestly. I know society puts it, Oh, this is masculine and this is feminine. I don't put myself in categories.

I wear cheap shoes. I don't even wear socks.

I sleep with my socks on sometimes.

For my first Hollywood film, I really didn't want to be doing a film where I'm looking like a stooge with fake snakes that look like socks.

I like wearing things that are a bit off but not in a ridiculous 'I'm wearing a huge hat' kind of way. More a socks with sandals way.

I don't clean, I don't make the bed. I spend my salary. I worry a lot. I just don't worry about socks on the floor.

I know I'm likeable, but living with me is different. Yes, I can be charming. That desire to please people and learning what to do to charm their socks off is something many of us do. But you get into a relationship, and the party's over at some point. They see the real you.

Internet does not equal sodium pentothal.

People say keeping it real is a hard thing to do. Keeping it real is easy. Being fake and being soft is hard to do.

I'm not much of a salesman. I prefer the soft sell and the honest approach.

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

You can be a namby-pamby leftie, a gun-toting neo-con, or a soft, indecisive moderate. I really don't care. Just don't lie to me.

I don't have any huge desire to show you all that I'm not tough and strong, that I'm all feminine and soft. That's not a huge longing that I have because I know who I am.

Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.

I start the show, and the armour goes on, and the showman comes out. When the show is finished, that comes off, and I become soft centred again.

People are always very surprised by how, offstage with my husband, I'm a completely different person... very soft and nurturing.

I spend 70% of my time laughing. I don't walk around all dark. I might take my photos like that because I'm not a clown. But I'm a really soft, feminine, gentle, normal guy.

Something I will point out to everybody in the world, and I am not afraid to say it: these rap guys about as hard as soft butter. That's all there is to it.

Audley Harrison is quite a soft, gentle guy. He gives it all the talk but, when he's in the ring, you can see he's scared to death.

Beanbags and softball matches and a cool Twitter handle doesn't make young people want to work at your office.