Quotes About Authenticity

I like Scottish people because they feel very true. They're always level and straight. They get a reputation for being hardened because of it, but I find them to be scrupulously honest people.

Gay actors have been playing straight since Euripides.

As a closeted gay man, Jim McGreevey lived a life of presentation, a gay man portraying a straight man.

The world I live in is not all white people, not all straight people, and it's not all people who have their acts together, either.

We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.

I would straighten and dye my hair. I'd wear blue contacts to school. I got to a point when I was 16 and I realised this isn't me and this isn't who I am and I just cut that all out. I really owned myself and who I was.

Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.

I can't stand people who are backward. I am honest, straightforward. I don't like to pretend. And I will not change either.

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

The thing that's worked for me is having as much of a connection to the material as possible. And sometimes the material requires a more straightforward approach, and sometimes it requires a little more silliness, you know?

I always want to bring emotion across in a straightforward way. I don't want to get histrionic when I'm singing. For me that's just not interesting; it goes too far down one road.

I'm a young correspondent, so sometimes I'm just young. Sometimes I'm just straightforward.

Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward.

I'm saying to you that one of the great characteristics of the great American, the American people, is our historic ability to be straightforward, plainspoken, say what we mean, and mean what we say.

Portraiture keeps me humble. It's simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right in front of me.

I don't like to act in my personal life. I like to be straightforward.

When somebody asks me a question, I try to be as straightforward about it as possible. I try not to overthink what I'm going to say in an interview.

I'm pretty straightforward as a performer, but I do have a bit of a diva in me.

We try not to pull any punches and be straightforward, and I think that's what helped us connect with everybody across the board.

You have to be savvy and sharp and also straightforward with your customer. I think that authenticity is really important.

The best things - when I really feel that I'm communicating, and when I really feel that people are getting it - are simple, straightforward recipes. I think simple is the hardest to achieve because you don't have all those elements to hide behind.

I'm pretty much an out-front, straightforward chick, and I get a bit confused by expectations.

I am a serious and straightforward person.

I never really had any trouble selling my music to country audiences. They appreciate honest lyrics and straightforward melodies, and that's what I do.