Quotes About Authenticity

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

You listen to me, you daft cow. You are not boring. If you were we wouldn't be friends. You're funny and clever and, yes ,okay, you're a bit of a dingbat sometimes but that doesn't make you boring. The fact that we never know what'll come out of your mouth actually makes you interesting. Now, that's the end of that.

I just think that once you begin to see things the way the camera says is the average way, the way most people want to see them, it can be hard to remember to go back and find your own focus, your own point of view" -Scott

If you think people aren't posing when they're in public, you're more naïve than I imagined..." -Ollie

If you're not honest with your work — if you're being merely decorative — then the world will know. People intuit honest work. They know when they are being tricked by clever metaphors . . . by dishonesty in the artist.

It's really not so much about the amount of yeses or nos; it's about the brokenness behind our answers.

Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking.

I had so many offers after 'True Blood' for things that were someone in the same vein, but nowhere near Alan Ball's vision. Or something that was over-the-top and fantastical. And I've always wanted to play the regular, working-class mom, and I've never really had the chance to do that.

Work hard, be yourself, and have fun!

when love is real, the cost doesn't seem high. A man who really wants you will do whatever he must to possess your love. So set a standard.

The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books.

I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

It takes years for me to trust I know that about myself. A lot of it is because I am so private, and so reluctant to make myself vulnerable.

You've got to learn to let people be themselves,

The truth hurts, but it will set you free,

we can't keep hiding behind our faults to protect ourselves.

So I kept talking because nothing gets me going like knowing I should shut up. Oh, I should be quiet and full of potential like all those still flowers, but I know I am a weed and I've got to blow my seeds around the garden.

The worst thing about depression is how true your vision seems, like misery is the only correct perspective and everything you think when you're happy is a sham. I didn't even want to be happy anymore because I'd rather live in honest misery than fake bliss. I

I knew what I stood for, even if nobody else did. I knew the piece of me on the inside, truer than all the rest, that never comes out. Doesn't everyone have one? Some kind of grand inner princess waiting to toss her hair down, forever waiting at the tower window. Some jungle animal so noble and fierce you had to crawl on your belly through dangerous grasses to get a glimpse.

The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath

What is the reality of a drag queen? my stranger had asked. What indeed? I thought. What is the reality of any identity?

The most important stuff, what was closest to the bone, was just what you never talked about. There were no words for it...The trivial and silly is what you spend your day chatting about. You could ask your friends how they liked your hair, but you could never ask them what you really wanted to know: Is there hope for me, yes or no?

Fleetwood Mac has been pretty truthful. Open about what we do. We've always done it from the inside out. Versus being pressured from the outside and changing the inside. And that's our story.