Quotes About Authenticity

A lot of people in Nashville think that the best song is the catchiest or the one that sells the most copies. They're editing songs in a way that make them seem more consumable, I guess. I'm trying to edit them in a way that makes them more honest.

As a family we love to come together, so I never want it to feel stuffy where someone feels like they can't kick their feet up. That's the Nashville gal in me.

I'll tell you, Nashville ruined country music.

What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me.

I look up to Tegan & Sara, obviously, Adele and Natalie Maines from the Dixie Chicks. All these artists are strong in their convictions, and they haven't changed who they are for the music business.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

What's natural is beautiful, and when you're not you anymore, you become a caricature.

I feel like people are like, 'Ooh, French beauty, they don't do anything.' But I think it's more about looking as natural as possible.

My mother never wore much make-up, and she was a kind of natural beauty; she knew just how to enhance what she had.

I want to be in a more natural state while doing acting.

I don't really care how people see me in my natural state, in a comfortable state.

People will appreciate who you are when you're naturally being who you are.

Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.

Don't think too much. The best pictures come naturally.

It's just my character, naturally. I don't really talk that much. It's just who I am. I just back it up in the ring. There is no need to talk... I'm not the guy who rambles.

Be Funny. Be naturally funny. If you're not, get out of the business. Be compassionate.

Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.

I don't think confidence has ever really been one of those things that came naturally for me. If people thought I was confident, it was really just the way I masked my insecurity, because I didn't want people to really get to know the real me.

I'm not going to put out a Christmas CD until it's coming out of me naturally.

I don't overact, so people think that I naturally act well. I underplay my roles, and that has worked for me.

Everything you see on screen is real. By doing what we do, there's naturally going to be a lot of grimacing. And whimpering.

I'm not naturally manipulative.

I really do believe that being naturally beautiful is what is inside and what shines through.