Quotes About Authenticity

There are a lot of wannabe men in Hollywood. But when you have that Hollywood mentality, there aren't a lot of real, grounded people.

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.

I felt like a sinful person when I dated men and allowed them to feel for me in a way I knew I could never naturally feel for them. That felt wrong and a lie.

It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.

A man can seem to have many friends yet know little of friendship.

How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price?

Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't?.... It's the courage of your own tenderness.

I like women who are so real that they become as cowardly as certain men, as heroic as others and as sexual and dominating as men can be. And as you can imagine everything I do is [misunderstood].

There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men.

Often I think boys don't become men. Boys just get papier-mâchéd inside a man's mask. Sometimes you can tell the boy is still in there.

A man's goodness is truly measured by what he is, not what he does.

I never wanted to be an actor and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.

A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isnt.

Pray the real live forever man. Pray the fakes get exposed.

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.

God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim: "I am what I am." Unlike God, man strives with all his might to be what he is not. He incessantly proclaims: "I am what I am not.

As a young man... you don't know anything about yourself. And add on to that, you're on the cover of magazines. People are interviewing you about what you think. You feel like a real phony.

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

It's my job to try to communicate with as little showiness as possible. I was a really showy actor as a young man.

Being with a man incapable of telling a lie – a whole lot of awesome. Being with a man who could taste when you lied – sucked the big one.

A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.

I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.