Quotes About Authenticity

When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it.

I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged men trying to pretend that 'Black Dog' is still significant. It's inappropriate.

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there's an intensity about their stuff. You can tell right away they're real people, ya know?

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.

I can't claim I'm truly a man's man, I'm just as much of a dork and a crybaby sometimes as anybody else.

You make me feel like a natural man

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.

What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

And what is it, thought I, after all! It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself.

I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican,' but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.

I'm hardly the sexiest man in the world. I'm a bit of a geek.

I'm a simple, simple man.

I've never even been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made me the way I am.

We shouldn't be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel.

Clark Gable was the only real he-man I've ever known, of all the actors I've met.

I thought I had fallen in love with a woman a couple of times. Then I fell in love with a man, and realised that none of those things had been love.