Quotes About Authenticity

Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it.

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.

I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it.

Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.

Ideas gathered from reading will always be bookish ideas. Go to the persons and objects directly. Have a painter's eye.

Authentic expression is something you can't invent. When you capture it, it's worthy of admiration.

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

BEING (models) instead of SEEMING (actors).

In your passion for the true, people may see nothing but faddism.

One recognizes the true by its efficacy, by its power.

Rid myself of the accumulated errors and untruths. Get to know my resources, make sure of them.

Truth is within ourselves.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.

To live originally is to live authentically, to not be defined by culture or environment, to be truly oneself. We do not want to ignore culture. We live in it; but we need not be defined by it. Living originally, we are in the world but we are not of the world.

Until I started owning the grief and rage from my childhood, the sadness and hurt and fear that I had denied all of my life, I was incapable of being honest with myself, incapable of knowing who I Truly was.

I realized that I was judging myself against standards that weren't real, against expectations that were a fantasy, a fairy tale.

We need to let go of the illusion that we can control this life business. We cannot. We never could! It was an illusion. And we need to let go of the false beliefs that tell us that we are bad and shameful. We cannot become whole as long as we believe that any part of us is bad or shameful.

On ev'ry hand it will allow'd be,He's just—nae better than he should be.

It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.

Honesty in small things is not a small thing.

Say what you mean. Mean what you say.