Quotes About Authenticity

I am in a key moment. I kind of understand that I have to use my work more completely without being ashamed.

The worst case scenario is you really like someone's work, then you meet them and they're a self-involved, entitled douchebag.

You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.

During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began.

I'm not so interested in the effort that it takes to have a self-promotional outlook. I believe in being quiet and making my work and just trying to make discoveries and let the painting evolve.

People thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are - and connecting that to work that they truly love .

As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it's a fine balance between trying to just work, and also be true to yourself.

Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.

Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this.

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess.

It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks about what's "too much" what's "enough" or if you're telling the "right" stories, just do good work.

honesty is hard work.

After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.

If everything that you do is for the market, it won't work.

As long as you focus on your strengths and remain natural, then you come off natural [in your work].

Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

Work can only be universal if it is rooted in a part of its creator which is most privately and particularly himself.

In some ways you become who you really are, if you work hard enough on who you wish to be.

For me, it's never been about being famous. I just want to be a successful singer. I wanna work hard If I'm in the papers, grace, but I want to be there for the right reasons - for my music.

I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.

Fashion isn't me, even though I work in it. It's just materialistic stuff.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.