Quotes About Authenticity

What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you're so ugly on the inside?

That's sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something…real." Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. Real love, real friends, real body parts…

V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for your loved one" I think it's quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It's all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.

Worried about getting a life? Forget that. Get a lifestyle .

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Nothing ruins a face so fast as double-dealing. Your face telling one story to the world. Your heart yanking your face to pieces, trying to let the truth be known.

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.

Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn't make it a biscuit.

I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style.

I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am...

Good actors, never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they want to say.

But I don't feel the need to be famous.

I don't put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.

The time for hidden truths is over.

He just wasn't the guy, you know? I want the guy. The everything guy. Not the dumb Prince Charming, nauseatingly-perfect everything guy. That's pathetic. I want the flaws-and-all everything guy.

You are who you are. Don't be ashamed of yourself. At all. Surround yourself with people who cheer you on.

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize, 'All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago ' it feels good to have success come from what's actually inside of you.

It's important to fall in love with someone you don't want to change.

I'm interested in learning more about myself and what I value in myself and letting that be the beautiful part of me, rather than putting on the makeup or wearing the right designer.

For years, I occupied my time trying and failing to be the woman the men in my life wanted me to be. Never just me. I ran into situation after situation, telling myself that the reason I had so much anxiety and was scared to death to be alone at night was because I just needed to be a better person for whomever I was trying to please at the time.

Is this okay?" I asked the crew. They smiled. "You be you, Jessica," If I was me being me, I would have said no to going camping. But I guess they had enough footage of us sitting on the couch, so a-camping we will go.

But I can tell you that plastic surgery does not cure what's inside.