Quotes About Authenticity

Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.

Stop trying to impress people with your clothes and impress them with your life.

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.

Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.

It's always going to be easy to live like others or other's life, because creating or innovating something of own is always difficult in comparison to buying or borrowing anything from others.

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

I'm interested in living more of a life that's invisible to everybody and more vibrant to a fewer people that are in my life.

I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.

More wealth doesn't fix your life. More wealth makes you more of what you already are.

In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.

Art comes from life, not from the studio

It's hard to stay true to yourself and what you want in life when there are so many distractions and so much craziness going on around you.

When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.

My life's a mess. I'm not afraid to admit it.

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.

The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life.

I've never sung a single song in my whole life on purpose to shock anyone. My 'hot numbers' are all, if you will notice, written about something that is real in the lives of millions of people.

The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

The people that tell you what you enjoy is wrong, or come in your life and tell you what you're wearing is wrong are miserable because they focus on the things that they don't like.

The whole of my life, what they wanted was honesty. They were not concerned with cultured football, but with triers who gave one hundred percent.

I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating.

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.