Quotes About Authenticity

It is impossible for a man to conceal himself. In every act, word or gesture he stands revealed as he is, and not as he would have himself appear to be. From the Universe, nothing is or an be hidden.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

Money doesn't change men. It merely unmasks them.

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.

There should be a connection between a man's hairstyle and what matters to him in life.

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.

Like the lion tears the flesh off a man, so can a woman who passes herself off as a male.

If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty, people would go mad. Married men would run amuck.

I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.

In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.

Marlon Brando said any guy can become an actor. It takes a real man to quit.

Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.

I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

My biggest satisfaction is always when I make something beautiful and well-done that I can see on a real man or woman - not only in the glossy magazines.

I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.

No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.

You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!

It may sound like a mess, but sometimes mess can be okay, mess can be fine. Sometimes mess is just another word for living your life as real you, not someone else's version of what they think you should be.

Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.