Quotes About Authenticity

I think you just have to be realistic to what the reality is, the way people experience movies.

Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any.

When I'm performing, I hope my research and my experience with those things I'm talking about rings true.

You really have to be a character to serve it properly. Obviously, you're acting, but you have to have those things in yourself, whether it's the experience or the same qualities.

Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.

I'll experience vulnerability when I just don't have any more to give.

What I lacked [in La Nausee] was a sense of reality. I have changed since. I have slowly learned to experience reality.

Certainly, you want to be liked, but as you gain confidence and experience you're more concerned with expressing yourself and what matters to you.

In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part.

You are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye and think it is a broken heart.

I think vulnerable is something you should always be. [It] makes you open to each experience. I try not to see vulnerability as a negative.

it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.

It's a disservice, really, when we put celebrated people on a pedestal and don't allow them to be human. It's a very lonely experience for the individual. It's not a sustainable way to live.

I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons Actors have no inhibitions, and Im inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.

Feminine power isn't something we go out and acquire; it's already within us. It's something we become willing to experience. Something to admit we have

My desire is to be pure again and not dirtied by the world. But it's my duty to be as ugly and as filthy as I am, so the audience can experience what I have.

One of the things that I have always been interested in is the actual experience of people in their lives as opposed to what we think their experience should be.

As an actor, you're putting yourself out there when you perform. You're bound to experience feelings of vulnerability because of this.

The biggest mistake we make in creating successful relationships is that we seek to experience who we are through others rather than allowing others to experience who they are through us.

When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.

Settling for fool's gold instead of the real treasure?

you are only what you are when no one is watching.

Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.