Quotes About Authenticity

I've always been about honesty, whether on the radio, whether I did a movie, whether I wrote a book. As long as you're honest, you don't lose your edge.

No one is perfect but without honesty you've got nothing.

Our success is directly related to our clarity and honesty about who we are, who we're not, where we want to go, and how we're going to get there.

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, the rest is easy.

How much more can you give? Other than, literally, open-heart surgery onstage? Not much. But the only cure you have right now is the honesty of going, this is who you are. I know who I am.

We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not.

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

It seems so odd to me, an odyssey How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us Its astonishing.

Self-honesty is not putting yourself down or feeling sorry for yourself. Self-honesty is looking at things as they are and then being compelled to make changes.

If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous.

Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to yourself.

Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth?

It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

The single best thing about honesty is that it requires no follow-up.

Honesty is not necessarily interesting. I don't want to hear about your dreams or your acid trips, probably unless you make them really interesting.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.