Quotes About Authenticity

Accept your genius and say what you think.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core is.

Whatever you do, you should do it with feeling.

What we are here to do is to meet and become the person we are.

If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

a dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren't.

If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important Rule of Beauty. "Who cares?"

Stick with your own perception of yourself-living in your own world-and letting your reality, not the reality presented by other people or particular situations, control your performance.

Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself.

You don't do anybody any favours by being less than you are.

We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.

The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

I think it's important for me to show the world that sobriety hasn't made me soft. I'm on a mission to prove I'm still a nutcase.

The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.