Quotes About Authenticity

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

There is often a great difference between what we want and what we think we want, and this is complicated still further by the fact that we are often greatly influenced by what others want for us

When people see your personality come out, they feel so good, like they actually know who you are.

Truth lies not only in what is said, but also in who says it, to whom, why, how and under what circumstances.

Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.

Isn't it more important to live reality and not symbols?

There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

You are acting, not being." Strasberg explained, "I stress the difference between the actor who thinks acting is an imitation of life, and the actor who feels acting is living

You will see this book takes twists and turns. Welcome to the pinball machine of my mind. Here, authenticity lives with eccentricity. A delicious diet, if a bit unsteady. My poems, my puns, my spiritual side trips, and the names of friends, both famous and infamous, dropped along the way – I can't stop myself. I can't help myself. So come along. It's dangerous, but indulge me. We will travel with lightning speed because I've led a lightning-speed life.

One feels relieved these days when a play is not like television.

My whole testimony was a lie.

Lo que uno piensa y escribe cuando está solo no puede decirse que sea la verdad. La verdad es lo que uno hace en realidad, la manera en que se comporta. Las obras, no las palabras, es lo que cuenta.

Quien tiene el verdadero poder no necesita joyas ni trajes fastuosos para demostrarlo. Quien siente esta necesidad admite su propia debilidad

I wonder why we too often live as though the life we are living is a trial run—some sort of dress rehearsal. Do we think that somewhere down the road we will get the chance to do it right? This is it! Today is it. You will not live this day again. Savor it.

Trying to live up to what everyone else thinks and wants for you is a recipe for perpetual anxiety, self-doubt, and a generally unhappy life.

No need to play small—this is your life!

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.

I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

I wanted you to know me.

Truth is too big a price to pay for the luxury of avoiding pain now and then.

Pure at heart: to be like a flower that blooms as gloriously, brilliantly in a secluded wild wood, not seen and praised.