Quotes About Authenticity

I'm interested in authentic experience and the essence of that creative place, and where those myths begin and where they become real on any level.

'Fake' used to be an insult, but now it's a badge of honour, with hair extensions, tans and nails all artificial, but looking fabulous.

I've never had my nails done - look at them!

My mum and dad are quite hippyish, so I'm pretty naive. I take everyone at face value.

You cannot play naive if you're not.

The term 'sell out' is juvenile and naive.

I cook naked, and I walk around naked. I'm very comfortable with my body.

Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.

I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.

Naked is the best disguise.

I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot.

Now, music almost feels naked in my mind.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

For some ungodly reason, I end up being naked in a lot of stuff. But there is a certain grace and kudos that come with taking your clothes off on the first day, a respect that is given by the rest of the cast.

As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.

I could live naked... I love it.

The whole process of music for me is something absolutely honest and really naked and bare, so I never forced myself to write in French.

If I ask my actors to bare themselves, to reveal themselves as almost naked, I have to bare myself, expose myself as well. That's what creates excitement.

When I look half naked on stage, it's not because I'm trying to be sexy but because I am dancing and want to be mobile enough to move.

'Naked' embodies what everyone, at the end of the day, really wants and how they should feel.

In my music, I bare it all; it's really naked.

I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

I think authenticity is the name of the game.