Quotes About Authenticity

I always try to honor a character by being honest and truthful to who they are, in spite of my own personality and beliefs.

It's always very daunting to play someone who actually existed. You have to honor that, and be specific and accurate and try to make people believe that you're that guy, which is really hard.

The person you are is a thousand times more interesting than the best actor you could ever hope to be.

Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you.

Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them - the one, in fact, which is not a mask.

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.

I really hope that when someone puts my record on that they hear me.

I bring to a role everything I am, was and hope to be.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

I hope people can see us SHINee, who are doing what we can do now, as we are.

The greatest value comes from loving yourself for who you are. I've been teaching myself this for years, so I hope that by showing what I've learned, others can find the same freedom and joy I have.

Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised.

When you come close to selling out, reconsider.

Sweat pants, hair tied, chillin wit no makeup on. That's when you're the prettiest, I hope that you don't take it wrong.

I am a very frank person and that's how I hope to remain. I don't like to pretend to be polite. What you see is what you get.

The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real.

More than anything, I think the best thing you can do as an artist is just stay as true to yourself as possible and hope that your fan base will appreciate that.

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.

Like anything, you just need to stay true to who you are and hope that social constructs don't get in the way of accomplishing your goals.

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could.

We may look great on Instagram, but we're still lonely and depressed and anxiety-ridden. I hope, for the sake of our future generations, that our moral compass stays intact.

I hope I don't become just an animation [with a digital film].