Quotes About Authenticity

I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I'm comfortable going against the grain if I need to.

I just think the key is really don't put something on the Internet if you're looking for some type of validation. Only put it on there if you feel good about it and you want to share it.

A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.

When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.

There's something known as the Uncanny Valley where things look a little too real and you're not quite sure what you're looking at. It becomes weird like it did in 'The Polar Express,' where the eyes seem so realistic, and yet you know it's animated.

Why don't we face up to the fact that many of us in Silicon Valley are living lives that involve telling ourselves a lot of lies.

The show is not really about finding love in Silicon Valley, and it never really claimed be so.

I think that Silicon Valley and technology can play a huge role in redefining what community looks like and how people come together and what authentic relationships look like, but that is not only their burden.

But I try to play everything very authentically, even if it is an accented immigrant, Jian Yang, that I play on 'Silicon Valley.'

If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.

I love the company of actors, but the crazier it gets, the more I've come to realise how valuable my time is with my friends who work on the land or are builders or, you know, make music. Work in offices. Run shops.

Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.

None of my movies have ever made any money, so it's not about commercial success for me. It's always the same thing. I want to create something valuable, something unusual and different that the world has never seen.

As I got older, I realized that my life experience, what I really had, was always going to be more valuable than what I pretended to have.

I think art is much more valuable when it's honest. If it's not honest, it's just propaganda.

Online, I'm this loud, outrageous, confident guy who acts like nothing bothers him, and he has the whole world at his fingertips. In reality, I'm a shy, quiet guy who would rather spend his nights lying in bed watching Netflix than being a valuable member of society.

I speak publicly about the things I am speaking privately about, and there is no difference - the things I'm passionate about and dissecting with my friends and family, the things that are valuable to me, are the things that I publicly share and publicly promote.

To me, the simplest things can have the highest value.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.

I think you feel more liberated in a foreign country. You're more open. You understand less about the social constructs that exist in a certain place, so you take people more at face value, and you're also taken more at face value, which makes you more able to be yourself.

No matter what product or service your company offers, people have a way of finding out if you are genuinely providing value.

I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.