Quotes About Authenticity

Pickup lines are a major turn-off, they don't work on me and I tune them out. It's better to just be honest.

The songs that you work and work and work on sometimes are just forced and not as good.

Advice for young people who want to channel their personality into creative work - be authentic.

When I don't have to be at work, I want to be the real me - the comfortable me!

I never wear makeup when I'm not at work. It can make you forget what you look like, and I've grown to really love the way I look without it.

The work that's interesting to me in other people is really confessional.

I use myself for each part. Naturally, it's my body, it's my soul, it's my feelings. That's the only way I know how to work. I couldn't pretend.

I know that some people work differently, but I have to work from the inside out. It doesn't matter how big the character is, there has to be a truthful core.

You want to feel like people are hiring you because they want to work with you, not because of who your parents are.

I don't demand that all work be a masterpiece. What I am doing is the right thing for me - that is what I am and this is living. It reflects me and I reflect it.

If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.

Every actor has to find space where they are free, in order to do good work.

I wouldn't do the 'Magic Hour' again, but I would do TV again. The 'Magic Hour' is not me. Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.

For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.

Personal publicity is apt to be dangerous to any writer's integrity; for the moment he begins to fancy himself as quite a person, a taint creeps into his work.

But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being.

I don't wear ties to work. And I don't shave.

Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

I learned that as long as I had anything in my heart or head I still felt necessary to hide, it would not work. I had to come to peace with everything.

My deep belief is that all of us have the same lifelong work: to learn honesty, courage, and love. To learn, in other words, how to be our best selves.

Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.

My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.

I'm not a 'sexy' 'beautiful' woman. It takes a lot of work to make me look like a girl.

What I want from my lovers is real, unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done.