Quotes About Authenticity

A lot of times, people believe that until you're a certain-list actor, you say yes to everything; you're not allowed to say no. But early on, something went off in me, and if something didn't ring true for a myriad of reasons, I would say no and was fortunate enough to have people around me that were OK with that.

I'm having fun. I'm being myself. I'm doing what I love. That's all that matters.

When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.

I'm being myself when the camera is rolling.

I'm happy with being myself.

I fully embrace myself as a hypocrite.

Everything I do, I do it being myself.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.

I'm not an entertainer; I'm an engager. I never sell myself, in a sense.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.

I just want to be myself.

I think I'm just always myself, and I think that's what's most important to me. Just be genuine. Be authentic. Be who you are and who you were meant to be. And celebrate that. Celebrate all of that.

The problem is that even as you reveal the mysteries in your past, you are accumulating them in the present; complete honesty is the stuff of post-mortem, not autobiography.

I don't want people reading my books just because they're horror or mysteries. I want them to read them because they're Joe Lansdale books.

I don't want to be mysterious.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that writing is mysterious; you don't ever truly know where it is coming from, so don't edit yourself line by line. Don't get in your own way. Whatever is truly there at the core, that is your voice.

Back in the day, artists could be mysterious. Now, people want to know and hear everything about you. They want to see and feel the mess that is life - and who are bigger messes than artists?

Why do millennials like Bernie Sanders so much? I love that this is a mystery to Washington. It's the authenticity, stupid.

People think that as a celebrity, you have to have this sort of mystique about you, but I'm probably the realest person you'll ever meet.

Some people are really good at playing the movie star - they are really good at cultivating that mystique - but I'm not really into that.

What made 'Dark Side Of The Moon' so great is some of the mystique and where it was coming from and just the authenticity of it.

There is a myth that writers get to choose their stories. You don't get to choose your story any more than you get to choose your children. You can make the decision to write, but beyond that, at the end of the day, it's going to come out how it's going to come out.

To idolise a person means you don't get to know them, and the idea that you can become one is a myth, and it also means that you don't need to talk to one another because you're the same person.