Quotes About Authenticity

It is far more important to me that I come to know my Lord in living reality than it is to be in ministry without it.

If godliness is not from deep within you, it is only a mask.

never fear conflict, never be afraid to tell the truth, and never be afraid to say what I really think.

Comedy is basically truthful.

If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier

I think to be believed—onstage or on-screen—is the one hope that all actors share. Which one of us, anywhere in the world, doesn't yearn to be believed when the audience is watching?

if the thing you're doing is really funny, you don't need to "act funny" while doing it.

That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.

I rejoiced in the flaws that made her more real to me

You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won't discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself. (p. 84)

Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you. What you love and what you think you love because you believe you can't have it. (p. 163)

It's never been true, not anywhere at any time, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale. We are unrepeatable beings of light and space and water who need these physical vehicles to get around. When we start defining ourselves by that which can be measured or weighed, something deep within us rebels. We don't want to EAT hot fudge sundaes as much as we want our lives to BE hot fudge sundaes. We want to come home to ourselves. (p. 174-5)

Staying requires being curious about who you actually are when you don't take yourself to be a collection of memories.When you don't infer your existence form replaying what happened to you, when you don't take yourself to be the girl your mother/father/brother/teacher/lover didn't see or adore. When you sense yourself directly, immediately, right now, without preconception, who are you?

Do not fear to be your true self, for everything you want, wants you.

They are unchanging, because they have utterly become themselves and will never be otherwise.

My life isn't all running around and screaming, you know.

Photography is a dish best served raw.

As soon as the numbers get up in a chart - or better yet, a graph - as soon as they thus become blessed with some specious authenticity, they become the drivers in high-risk, low-data situations because these people are so anxious to have data. That's when you hear them saying things like "It will be a billion-dollar market in 2016. If we only get five percent of that market..." When you hear that sort of stuff, exit gracefully, holding on to your wallet.

Make something 10 people completely love, not something most people think is pretty good.

the struggle between authenticity and accessibility

Trouthe is the hyeste thyng that men may kepe.

It's not odd these days to hear politicians trumpeting their own authenticity, a claim that an earlier day would have considered self-cancelling. But when Michelle Bachman, Rick Perry, and Rick Santorum say "I'm authentic," they're not evoking the shade of Neal Cassady. (102)

No cheap tricks.