Quotes About Authenticity

Be yourself' is good advice, unless you notice that people are always excusing themselves and moving away from you. In that case, try being someone else!

It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.

I'm passionate about being true to myself, sending good energy to the people around me, traveling, staying inspired, being a good friend, being a good daughter, being a good sister.

It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.

I like to wear what I feel good in, not what the latest trend is.

The telling of a good story, especially one that is real and true, is always exciting.

It feels good to watch TV and know that you're being represented on somebody's network and for certain communities, it feels even better to know that you're being depicted truthfully.

We start to feel not good enough and we withdraw our hearts energy and sensor our authentic expression, and that hurts!

The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.

When you are creating something artistically and are speaking to or representing a culture that you know truthfully, you are doing a good job.

You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.

You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.

Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does.

I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at

I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.

The moot question is not that how many persons are of good or not so good character, but who applauds the character truly as the real beauty factor in own and others' lives.

As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a scene. Sometimes that's not the point.

It's very strange that people would consider me a fashion muse but it's also flattering. I try to just be myself, and wear what's comfortable and makes me feel good.

You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it doesn't feel good.

I'm very wary with impressions - I don't think I'm very good at impressions, I hate doing them.

It's such a challenge to play a good guy - it's hard to be believable.

Comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. Once you compare yourself to someone else, what you're really saying is that what you're made of isn't good enough.

In my theater days I assumed that you had to get rid of yourself to do a character well, and I don't think I was a very good actor when I did that.

I don't cook... I don't know how to clean... there's may be a good chance I'm an alcoholic.