Quotes About Authenticity

If I am a great man, then a good many of the great men of history are frauds.

It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: "A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others."

It's no good saying one thing and doing another.

Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery.

Why is it that so many people are afraid to admit that they are happy?

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

I wish everybody would go back into the closet.

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, 100 things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out; only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

You can pretend to be serious, but you can't pretend to be witty.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

I can only live in the world of truth, inasmuch as I'm able to be truthful with myself at any given point, on any given day.

If you go through your life being completely truthful, everybody will hate you, and something I deeply fear is being hated.

However much people want to politicize every movement of a controversial woman in life or on the screen, we just have to keep being personal and truthful, or we will explode.

I love rap, and part of hip-hop culture is being excessive and absurd, and I can't be excessive and absurd without sounding corny. So I have to do it in a very truthful, weird way.

As an actor, the only pressure I have is to just be truthful and to do my best work.

I want to be unique and original and truthful.

I don't ever want to work on something unless I feel really passionate about it and know I can give everything to it; otherwise it's not truthful and I hate that.

The best comedy is truthful. So if you say something in a way that is amusing, but is rooted in truth, you can get away with it.

You have to be truthful and believable in whatever you do and that is the founding principle of acting.