Quotes About Authenticity

We said that we had to please ourselves first, that was the point of what being an artist was all about. If you didn't keep your integrity in the face of hard commercial decisions, you were lost. Your soul was dead.

There is an actor in every character you are playing. We are sons, daughters, students, lovers, friends, employees, students, parents, etc. Be true and real under every skin you wear, don't be characterized, be yourself first, sincere, real and get MickeyMized.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

The three horrors of modern life — talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.

Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play.

Between jest and earnest.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

Sometimes to be silent is to lie.

Sólo a solas se sentía él; sólo a solas podía decirse a sí mismo, tal vez para convencerse, ¡yo soy yo!; ante los demás, metido en la muchedumbre atareada o distraída, no se sentía a sí mismo.

La única verdad es el hombre fisiológico, el que no habla, el que no miente ...»

El alma es un manantial que sólo se revela en lágrimas. Hasta que se llora de veras no se sabe si se tiene o no alma.

Muchas veces se me ha ocurrido pensar, Orfeo, que yo no soy, e iba por la calle antojándoseme que los demás no me veían. Y otras veces he fantaseado que no me veían como me veía yo, y que mientras yo me creía ir formalmente, con toda compostura, estaba, sin saberlo, haciendo el payaso, y los demás riéndose y burlándose de mí.

A man who succeeded in never contradicting himself was to be strongly suspected of never saying anything at all.

Habrían creído a sus obras y no a sus palabras, porque las palabras no sirven para apoyar las obras, sino que las obras se bastan.

Seyri bizi olduÄŸumuzdan daha iyi k?lmayan güzellik güzellik deÄŸildir.

Hasta que se llora de veras no se sabe si se tiene o no alma.