Quotes About Authenticity

Oh, for Christ's sake,' I hear. 'Can we please just try to have a good time?' This is like ordering someone to find you attractive, and it doesn't work. I've tried it.

When Hillary Clinton tried to act holier than thou, it really doesn't work. It really doesn't.

Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.

You can't please everybody. All you can do is really just try to work from the heart and do the best job that you can and hope for the best.

I want people to say, 'She is really sweet and kind.' Anyone can work hard enough and be 'pretty.' Not many people are nice nowadays.

I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.

To the new 'Apprentice' candidates I would say to follow your gut instincts, be yourself and get ready to work hard for the next few months. Oh, and try to have some fun!

You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.

I feel I always have to work harder, I have to impress all the time. Impress whom? With what? People say, "Just be yourself." Well, my anxiety is that people aren't going to want that.

I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.

I'm not proposing that you let the crowd dictate, or that you work hard to fit in. Far from it. I'm proposing that you know the impact your choices are having and act accordingly.

Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.

A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be real.

My work is writing, but my real work is being.

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.

It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'connections.' I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work.

I like hard work and I don't like pretending things are perfect.

If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.

The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.

The scary truth is, you have to scratch some veneer off to gauge where the moral fiber really is in certain pockets of society. It's raw. It's scary. But it gives us a place to work with.

The work for the actor is always the same. We're looking for a human being. We're looking for believable human behavior.

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.

...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.