Quotes About Authenticity

If it's something that reaches out and grabs me, I want to do it. I have a lot of trouble doing things that don't grab me. So, I'm not a very good actor in that way. I can't fake it.

...a really good friend, the kind of friend who - when they were together both of them were more able to be who they really were.

You'd better do what you feel good about doing. If we [try] to figure out what it is the audience wants and then try to deliver it to them, we're lost souls on the ghost ship forever.

The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.

I'm not in any way selling out by having a record that's good enough for radio.

I am not a rodeo clown, like, "Everything is awesome!" I really worked hard on myself and things and struggled to get to a good place, to a better place.

Plastic surgery is such a displacement. If people feel good in their skin, then they're beautiful, end of story.

At this point, you are so far away from what you really are, it is ridiculous. The good news is that every step you take within brings you more in touch with that which you really are.

To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.

Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.

I don't have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.

There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there.

Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

The more facts I can have, the better. I can operate very nicely between them, but I am not very good at making things up. I am not sure how ethical it is.

If the words make sense on paper, and make me feel good, and I feel like it will connect, that's all I'm worried about it.

The secret of great style is to feel good in what you wear

Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.

Good enough is good enough. We're not supposed to be perfect. We're supposed to be complete.

My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.

All good things, all godly things, have been counterfeited by the devil.

It's fun to branch out a bit. I feel like I've held a lot of tricks up my sleeve for a lot of years, and 'Ex-Girlfriends' is a good way to show another side of me.

I'm a pretty bad liar, and I'm not very good at keeping secrets. I'm one of those people who is like, "Let me tell you what happened today. You're never going to believe it!"

Don't think you have to be good because you're the only one left. Be as bad as you like.

If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough.