Quotes About Authenticity

Critics can be harsh and I think it's going to take me a long time to make people see what I have inside of me and that I really put my guts into movies and that I'm not superficial and that I'm not just a pretty face.

I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.

I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty.

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.

Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.

The truth about me would rise like smoke signals soon enough.

I'd go to my grave wearing lies like another layer of skin.

Never make choices simply because someone told you what is right. Know yourself, know your situation, know God for yourself, and decide what is right for your life.

This is the freedom of the gospel—that we are free to be whom God made us to be, not confined to a box of aggressive masculinity or demure femininity.

Lies are unattended truths

I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.

If a horse can't eat it, I don't want to play on it.

Now the spotlight comes on and I'm saying to myself, 'Earvin, you don't play the game above the rim. You play it cerebrally. You play it in an intelligent way and just be who you are.

You can be nothing better than yourself; be that [...]

Life can be easy, it is only question of choosing between solutions and illusions.

In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.

I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs.

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church.

Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial.

There can be no real attachment to the given creation, no genuine responsibility in the world, unless we recognize the breach which already separates us from it.

God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.

Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of the church

In particular, our church will have to confront the vices of hubris, the worship of power, envy, and illusionism[28] as the roots of all evil. It will have to speak of moderation, authenticity, trust, faithfulness, steadfastness, patience, discipline, humility, modesty, contentment.[