Quotes About Authenticity

And though I have done many shameful things, I am not ashamed of who I am. I am not ashamed of who I am because I know who I am. I have tried to rip myself open and expose everything inside - accepting my weaknesses and strengths - not trying to be anyone else. 'Cause that never works, does it? So my challenge is to be authentic.

I wish to make a noise with my feet.I want my soul to find its proper body.

Real life is an overrated idea.

La paura finisce dove comincia la verità.

Ti stupisci di quanto sei attore. Di come fingi, di come ti imposti con tutti. Forse non senti niente? Forse sei finto fino al midollo? È tutto mediato dall'ipocrisia nella tua vita. Ti sei bruciato dentro, non senti più niente, ti dici. Cerchi di essere triste. Ti viene da ridere.

Seeing people only as members of groups is, he says, "inherently reductionist and dehumanizing, a collectivist and ideological abstraction of all that is original and creative in the human being, of all that has not been imposed by inheritance, geography, or social pressure." Real, personal identity, he argues, "springs from the capacity of human beings to resist these influences and counter them with free acts of their own invention." 5

It's much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what's important to you about your message and speak from the heart.

As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?'

He tells not a half truth, but a truth and a half

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.

You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.

True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.

Truth smells like Chinese food and sweat.

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

Non c'è confine tra quel che siamo e quel che dovremmo essere. Siamo solo quel che possiamo essere.

I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I'm not going to change that one bit.

Writers write badly when they have something to hide. Clarity makes their shaky assumptions plain to the readers – and to themselves.

It's your crap that's endearing. It's the basis of any relationship, way beyond even the choice of who wins on to whom. It's crap that sustains things. The mutual vulnerability that comes from knowing each other's crap. How shallow would we be if you only felt things for people on account of their successes? How likely would that be to survive?

Water can be a symbol of purification, to stand naked before someone a sign of truth, of nothing to hide. - Nick Flynn

I've made bad records but I've never made a dishonest record, let's put it that way.

like all the great rock'n'rollers, to sound like he'd dropped in from another planet and yet get the stuff which was right to the heart of what you were living today. That was how he opened up your vision.

See, I'm not trying to write. It just comes out when it comes out. So there is no block! Like, I'm not sitting down, going [frantically], "Oh my God, I've got to write a song! I really, really have to … Oh my God!" Hey, if I don't write a song, I don't record a song. Hell, it just gives me more time to do other things.

At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.