Quotes About Authenticity

You can't apologize for who you are on a stage, you can reveal who you are but don't apologize because that's begging the audience to turn on you.

You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.

If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us.

I don't consider myself a massive self-promoter, and I don't feel I've ever had to behave in a way that didn't come natural to me in order to progress.

I need to behave in a way that will cause people to take me seriously.

On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.

My character and my behavior is not for politics. I say what I think. I'm too liberal.

Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true.

I'm simply trying to tell the truth about human behaviour as I see it.

I was told at first that being different was a bad thing. Everywhere I went, it was just, 'You're too different'... And it turned out that being different was the best thing that ever happened to my career. It is why people travel to my shows. It's why people want to hear my story and buy my book.

Don't let that nagging fear - that feeling that being different automatically qualifies you as being wrong - eat away at you.

To all the girls out there who think being funny is not sexy, you are wrong!

If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.

Being happy is a beauty. It's not about having the perfect face or perfect make-up.

Adele is great because she promotes the idea of being happy as you are.

There's nothing wrong with being honest about what you are.

People know me from my social media and television appearances and they'd see through me if I wasn't being honest.

Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that.

Being honest with the public is how they respect you.

The thing is being honest with yourself. There's no rule that says you have to be married and have kids.

We are trying to push the envelope with a lot of characters in 'Brothers.' We are going out of the way and being honest to our roles.

For me, it was never about the money. It was about the truth, about being honest.

I don't watch any sports; I'm just being honest.

Things haven't always worked out how I want them to, but the eventuality of being honest is a daily gift.