Quotes About Authenticity

We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.

If I hold onto something it's because I want it not because I want to display it or show it to somebody else. I've got some cool stuff, I've got some cool things.

Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy.

I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.

I'm not really cool, or dashing, or any of those things.

Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.

It's really cool because it's all exactly my vision. I'm not watering anything down.

I don't hang out with the Hollywood cool people. I'm not out trying to make friends with people because they're famous.

There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero.

I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

The courage to be yourself is the essence of hip hop

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.

My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.

You can't get to courage without walking through vulnerability.

It's important to be fearless yet vulnerable. It takes courage to do both.

If you do not speak up when it matters, when would it matter that you speak? The opposite of courage is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.

Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs.