Quotes About Authenticity

I don't have secrets, my life's an open book.

My life has always been an open book and it's not such an eventful life.

My family is an open book. They don't hide.

I'm an open book.

I was a very closed person before, and I wouldn't say how I felt about things, and now I've kind of opened myself up. And it's scary.

'Made' is about opening your heart to people who deserve your love and not trying to turn other people into something that they're not: not trying to save people who don't want to be saved. If you go down that dark path, you're not going to end up doing any good.

I think breathing is actually the key to a lot of opening up of other parts of yourself that you haven't used, for any job, but particularly in acting.

I've become more comfortable with opening up.

I've heard that almost all the people crowding around the big art openings barely look at the work on display and are just there to hobnob. Nothing wrong with that, except that none of them ever come back to look at the art - but they will tell everyone, and actually believe, that they have seen the exhibition.

I'd say I'm not openly gay. I'm just gay.

I am an openly proud gay man.

I have lived my life very openly, and have never hidden the fact that I am gay!

I've been openly gay since I can remember.

I really do feel like an unremarkable person trying really hard, openly, to do something interesting and to make something of value and pleasure.

I openly say I've had my lips done, I've been getting my lips done for years now.

If I go way back to Loretta Lynn, I always cite her as being able to capture what I think is every woman's story... she very openly used her art as an expression of what she was going through in her life. So that authenticity is something I admire.

I have been a proud, openly gay man since I was 18.

I tried to live my life really openly and transparently right from the get-go. I think that probably resonated with people.

Coming to the Gold Coast and being able to live as an openly gay man is really important.

I really live my life openly.

My career is based on openness and honesty.

I love the American openness and use of language; I just don't know how to be that way.

I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself.

Opera is full of trappings that make us go away from being human. You can't let them do that. You can't walk like you're in an opera! You have to make it real. You have to just be there.