Quotes About Authenticity

I hit the ground running, without a lot of training, so I had to do whatever I could do to survive as a professional, and if that meant being that character 24/7 and acting out, I was going to do that. I lived those characters, I brought them home with me.

Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen, in small things they show themselves as they are

Je ne connais, disait Tatiana, aucune étreinte qui soit feinte. Toutes les étreintes sont par définition spontanées. Le jour où elles ne seront que le résultat musculaire de pensées calculatrices, l'humanité s'en ira, sang ancien, couler hors de nous.

I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

Breathe and don't try to be perfect.

The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.

You can't trust the internet.

despair evaporates when we stop denying who we really are and attempt to uncover and accept our true nature.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

There are thousands and thousands of people out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they work long, hard hours at jobs they hate to enable them to buy things they don't need to impress people they don't like.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die

DONT EVER BE AFRAID TO COME TO ME N CRY ...DONT EVER HESITATE TO LOOK ME N THE EYE DONT EVER BE AFRAID TO TELL ME HOW YOU FEEL. REMEMBAER YOUR MY GIRL N WE GOTTA KEEP IT REAL.

I know who I am. That's what's important—not proving something to some strangers I don't even care about

I woke up this morning exhausted from hiding the me of me. So I stand here confiding there's more to Devon than jump shot and rim. I'm more than tall and lengthy of limb. I dare you to peep behind these eyes, discover the poet in tough-guy disguise. Don't call me Jump Shot. My name is surprise.

Rather face the consequences if the truth rather than the reprocussions of a lie

Stay beautiful, keep it ugly.

A própria sincera, ao expressar-se, torna-se insincera.

Love us dirty, for any one will love us clean.

Para mim é, melhor o homem que diz sem rodeios que não percebe do assunto do que o hipócrita, que fala como se soubesse daquilo que não sabe e só borra e estraga tudo.

I am who I am and that's who I am.

Flattery will get you nowhere. (In response to Wally George calling his band vile and evil.)