Quotes About Authenticity

Authentic Christianity is not increasing levels of commitment grudgingly given to God; it is surrender to Jesus out of a sense of privilege in having him.

As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style.

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires.

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.

It's not easy going through life constantly questioning the punk credibility of everyone around you.

This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what youre doing, or it comes out flat. You cant fake your way through this.

You don't have to say anything in particular or do anything in particular to be helpful to people. You become a bodhisattva by wishing for your own happiness as well as the happiness of others, and by opening to your own experience in a loving way. When you love yourself and are kind enough to yourself to be who you really are, you're showing others what they need to do in order to be free.

Jimmy Bowen: You've got to find your own songs, because nobody but you knows what you want to sing.

I just think that I'll never have plastic surgery if I'm not in front of the camera. If you make your living selling this thing, which is the way you look, then maybe you do it. But trust me, the minute I'm directing or producing and not starring, I would never even think of it.

I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.

None of my films are 'Pollyanna.' They're not little deers walking around with butterflies and stuff. That's not what I do.

There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this.

With '3 Mics', there's nothing I'm talking about that's too hot button.

I never buy what someone says is 'in' or a 'must-have.' I buy what makes me happy.

I feel like if I'm going to give you a book about my dad, then I really want to give you my dad, because he is interesting and he is funny and if you're buying a book about him, I don't want you to have to sit through stuff that's not him.

I was someone who wanted to be a writer but who wasn't writing. I was someone buying books on writing. I was someone telling people that I was writer. But I was not writing.

People are buying music from 12-year-olds. No one realizes they didn't create this. They didn't write this. They didn't make this. All they have to do is press play, and you have a band.

I probably have 15 to 20 Dalis in the store. The secret to buying Dali - never buy one made after 1970.

Buzz is not what I am looking for.

If you start adapting to audiences, you're really second-guessing the situation, and it becomes a bit more like cabaret.

One of my problems with a lot of things I watch is that everybody's too pretty, and it takes me out of the film because I'm thinking that all these people look like I've seen them in a cafe in Los Angeles.

When my divorce came through, it was like being let out of a cage because I hadn't been true to myself before; I was being something that was expected of me.

The whole bad-boy image was for the cage, and that's it. It wasn't an act because it came from a passion for fighting.

If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn't matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and no frosting.