Quotes About Authenticity

Honesty makes me feel powerful in a difficult world.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got.

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.

Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.

If you don't know how, why pretend?

One of the things that attracted me to Barack [Obama] was his emotional honesty. Right off the bat he said what he felt. There are no games with him - he is who he appears to be.

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

In reality, humility means nothing other than complete honesty about yourself.

I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.

If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?

I like the honesty of standup comedy. People don't fake laugh. If they're truly laughing at you, you know they like you.

Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything

If ever I said in grief or pride, I'd tired of honest things, I lied.

Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.

I hope I just continue to be passionate about the roles and to always endeavor to bring clarity and honesty to the table and different ideas.

I really strongly feel that when you approach a drama, you have to approach it with energy, honesty, sincerity, and absolute commitment, or don't do it.

Honesty is the voice that is acceptable in every matter.

I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint.

She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.

I realized, dumb people don't know they're dumb. When people try to make me laugh and they try to be funny, that's when they lose me. I find a lot of comedy in honesty.

We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.