Quotes About Authenticity

Suddenly, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to pretend I'm fooling the world when I'm not. I want someone else to have a plan for me, because I'm not doing a very good job myself.

When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.

I think people relate to the music because I have a sense of empathy, and I think I have a good understanding about relationships, and I talk about them in a real, honest way

No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

I want my arguments to be good arguments on the basis of what I actually have to say.

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings.

If you try to do a look-alike and an impersonation, then that's just not conducive to good drama.

People around you that you feel you're close to, are they really wishing you good things, you know?

My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm down sometimes and just be me.

As long as you make your own decision and do thing because it feels good to you, there will always be people who agree and people who don't.

If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it. Because it'll never look good. Any hesitation in the fitting room and just walk away

I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying and when I am not. For what is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying?

Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.

Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

With good art, that's what happens - it comes directly out from inside of you almost instinctively.

As long as I stay true to what I believe is a good movie and what is my vision, that's all I can do.

I don't look my best when I wake up! But I do feel beautiful when I'm tired and happy and I've had a good laugh and a glass of champagne.

Being consistent is way less interesting than being yourself. And if you're not interesting? Good luck with your Big Consistency Project.

I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.

I just go for what makes me feel good. Especially in 2011, it's so easy to sound like a dickhead when describing yourself because anything anyone says is a catch-word or a buzz-phrase.

I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever.

I'm a really good person. I'm down to earth. I have a big heart. I have feelings. And I'm just like everybody else.

A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.

There is no need of any competition with anybody. U R yourself, and as U R, U R perfectly good. Accept urself