Quotes About Authenticity

Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.

We judge ourselves mostly by our intentions, but others judge us mostly by our actions.

My life is a constant struggle between what they want me to be, what I want me to be, and who I'm being instead.

Don't let someone's words blind you from their behavior.

I won't sacrifice my characters morals/intentions/motives for the sake of what I believe is right or wrong. If the action fits the character it will be written. That's that.

I have no resentments, no complaints, no ax to grind. I simply feel what I feel and do what I do.

Show me something real

Speak with your words and your message can be distorted... Speak with your actions and you'll leave no doubt.

The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.

I'm at the age where i don't have to kiss arse or play nice!

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

Live in such a way, that if someone speaks badly of you no one would belive it. Playing dress-up begins at age five and never truly ends.

You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working.

You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct.

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.

I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.

The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.

If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age.

Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.

Everyone always says it's a blessing to look a lot younger than my age, but sometimes I just want to look my real age.

It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should I write at the age of sixty-four," but never, "What should I write in 1940."

Simplicity, very rare in our age.