Quotes About Authenticity

In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.

A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.

It was really bizarre. I was learning how to be a black guy from a white guy pretending to be a black man.

Honesty is probably the sexiest thing a man can give to a woman.

As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.

The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, "Yeah, songwritin' man," looking wistful. That wasn't me - those kinds of people put me off.

The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

Listen to a man's words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?

I want to be a man's man - not a kid actor or a glitzy pop star but a no-bullshit leading man.

How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Take back your picture in a frame. Take back your singing in the rain. I just hope you understand sometimes the clothes do not make the man.

Style means no shield at all. Style means no front at all. Style means ultimate naturalness. Style means one man alone with billions of men about.

No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here

Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free/to be more like the man you were made to be

It wasn't just a matter of hiding what you really felt. If you hid your feelings well enough, it actually changed you. A

It irritates the hell out of me to be in a situation where I'm forced to do exactly what's expected.

You spend too much time goggled in," she says. "Try a little Reality, man.