Quotes About Authenticity

I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.

I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius

But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.

A friend tells you what you want to hear; a best friend tells you the truth.

Eu sou egoísta, impaciente e um pouco insegura. Eu cometo erros, eu estou fora de controle e às vezes difícil de lidar. Mas se você não pode lidar comigo no meu pior, então com certeza não me merece no meu melhor.

Gli uomini veri impazziscono per le ragazze che sanno dire di no. Gli stupidi si accontentano delle facili.

Le persone dolci non sono ingenue né stupide, né tanto meno indifese. Anzi, sono così forti da potersi permettere di non indossare nessuna maschera. Libere di essere vulnerabili, di provare emozioni, di correre il rischio di essere felici

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

The true things rarely get into circulation. It's usually the false things.

I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.

I've given myself away, the whole of me, every part.

Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children.

De aceea trebuie s? m? feresc de cei care par. Dau cu parul, cu p?rerea.

Le dimanche, les gens n'ont pas de sobriquet, on les appelle tout bêtement par leurs vrais noms qui ne leur vont guère mieux que ces habits qu'on garde avec soin pour quand on sera mort, bien pliés dans un coffre.

Theatre is fake ... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

When you are a young artist, you have no idea what you are doing. Every artist who says he knows, it is a lie.

Naturalmente —replicó el director—, la experiencia me dice que al final los que triunfan son los que dan más valor a lo que ellos creen de sí mismos que a lo que otros creen de ellos.

Usted no tiene que convertirse en nadie diferente a quien ya es, porque, en su esencia, usted ya es perfecto, esto es, completo. Lo único que tal vez necesite es descubrir qué hay realmente detrás de las palabras YO SOY.

La búsqueda de uno mismo, de quien se es en realidad, es siempre un acto de heroicidad que implica aprender a superarse a sí mismo una y otra vez, para poco a poco ir expandiendo los límites de la propia identidad.

Los valores que guían nuestra existencia los ven los demás no por lo que decimos, sino por cómo actuamos, ya que al fin y al cabo nuestra vida es nuestro mensaje.

The more fake and commercialized the world gets, the more people respond to things that have a real core of truth. I believe that every human being is hardwired to recognize that. Whatever you choose to do with your life--whether it's running a company or cooking dinner--stand for something you know is true.

When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put it on top, your soul is in that food, and there's something about that that can never be made by a company that has three million employees.

Qué feo eso de que le digan a uno la verdad, sobre todo si se trata de una de esas verdades que uno ha evitado decirse aun en los soliloquios matinales, cuando recién se despierta y murmura pavadas amargas, profundamente antipáticas, cargadas de autorrencor, a las que es necesario disipar antes de despertarse por completo y ponerse la máscara que, en el resto del día, verán los otros y verá a los otros.