Quotes About Authenticity

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

I don't care about going down in history as a great bull rider or bronc rider. I hope people will remember me as a great cowboy.

I feel like I'm always going to be me. It always goes back to being the person that I am. And I hope that will never change.

I hope someday when I date my fan, she loves me as a person and not as a famous Greyson Chance

Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart - it's all a person has.

I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.

I just try to do what I'm interested in and hope that some people will connect.

I want to be outspoken! I want to say my opinions and I hope they're taken in the right way. I don't want to stop being free ... and I won't...

I worry that people will think that I have done what I've done just because I have access and resources. I hope people will know that I'm just as scared and lonely as anyone else!

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.

I hope always to earn my living by my art without having ever deviated by even a hair's breadth from my principles... to please anyone or to sell more easily.

At Chicago Hope they have a technical staff that works real hard to make that O.R. as realistic as possible.

Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged.

If I fall over and make mistakes, I'll pick myself back up and hope for the best and try to conduct myself with as much authenticity and moral code.

I tell the audience every night, "I hope you didn't pay more than face value on that ticket, because we ain't worth more than that, and you ain't gonna get any more than that."

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

I hope that you know in your heart how you feel about things, and you don't let the people that live on fear and hate govern the way you live.

I hope people get genuine joy from our music.

On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial.

I hope I'm always convincing when I act!

You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way.

I don't want to say never, but I hope I don't become that 'take me seriously now' guy.

I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.

I hope people will find the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] a whole lot more than hollow.