Quotes About Authenticity

If I was going to pretend to be the supermom next door, it would've been counterfeit and a lie. I figured I had to write something out of a new place.

I want a politics that doesn't need to pretend to be holy or perfect or infallible. I want a politics that gets on with it.

You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.

Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist.

I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.

I am a person who can never pretend and manipulate - I am what you see me as.

I love when someone doesn't pretend to be someone they are not.

I'm not going to pretend that I'm something I'm not just because society says celebrities should be these perfect people that have to act a certain way.

I can't pretend to be enjoying this. I can't pretend I'm enjoying going out there and playing this style.

I'm not a journalist, never pretend to be.

I don't want to show my pain. I resisted; I hesitated. I tried to be invisible, to pretend that nothing was wrong. It's impossible; it's not like me.

Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.

Everyone was going to play their part honestly, and not try and pretend to be good or bad guys.

You can't really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it.

I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.

I don't really want to get married to get married pretend.

I could lie and pretend that I hunt and camp, but that wouldn't be me. Clothes? Shopping? That's stuff I like!

You cannot be in pretend for people to like you.

I'm not going to pretend I'm some saint, because I'm not.

Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it.

I was never honest. My father died, and I had never said to him, 'I'm gay.' I knew what I was, but I had to pretend not to be that to avoid the beatings.

Jesus didn't die for us so we could pretend to be something we're not.

I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.

I don't try to pretend to be what I'm not. I don't feel I need to do anything outrageous.