Quotes About Authenticity

Let's face it: I'm not a looker. I'm a scruff. But I have embraced my scruffiness. We're happy together.

There's something to be said for embracing who you are.

I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.

When you act, you want to emote and think in that language. I don't enjoy the process of doing a film in a language I am not good with.

What appealed to me was that the focus of 'North Atlantic' was more about performance rather than emoting, because I was at a point in life where it was nice not to have to emote all over the place.

I feel like I can't write something that has a real emotion in it if I can't connect to that emotion.

I've always wanted to sing. I don't think I have a great voice, but I just think that I get the emotion. It's very authentic. Whatever emotion I'm feeling, I can sing it, and you can feel it.

I have feelings. I'm not emotionally stunted.

If you are emotionally honest, you should mean what you say but also mean what you do.

To me the important thing for a comic to be is emotionally honest.

Emotionally, I don't feel like a trailblazer at all.

Own the leadership style that makes you you. If you are an empathetic leader by nature, embrace that.

For me as an actor, you always sort of want to bring yourself to a character in some way. You want to find a way to approach something in a way that's real and interesting, and also so there's some empathy there.

I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.

I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them.

Saying to someone 'I'm a transsexual' is the most empowering thing I've ever felt in my whole life.

Being a woman in country is really empowering. It's a genre where you can truly say whatever you want to say as long as you're 100% behind your message and who you are.

That's what 'LM5' is about, empowering women to be who they are.

It's very hard to imagine anybody being president when the stuff that's written about them is empty of who they are.

I don't want to emulate anyone.

Every day, we all make the critical decision of what we're going to wear, because many of the people we encounter in a day don't get to know anything more about us than how we present ourselves. That decision - totally on our own terms - is a powerful one.

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

I just want to say what I think and encourage others to say what they think.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.