Quotes About Authenticity

Acting coaches in Hollywood were always telling me to use my hands and body more. But that was never me. I just breathe and sometimes it doesn't look as if I'm doing that.

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!

I know that I'm getting the real deal with my mom. I know that she's telling it like it is. She's proud of me when I've earned it and she's disappointed in me when I've earn that. She's really my spectrum on where I am as a person.

I know that some people shy away from what I say. They think it is too blunt, but when you don't give people that, they feel like you are being fake and you're not telling the truth. So it's like, you want me to tell the truth, but when I do, it's too much for you.

My parents taught me the importance of telling the truth no matter what.

Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.

If I'm not getting played on the radio and I'm not making any money, I have nothing to lose by telling the truth.

A lot of people live by telling lies. I live by telling the truth.

I will say this about the truth - that it's one of those crisis rules, whether you are a client or someone who's living their life just every day - is that the truth has a funny way of not going away, and telling the truth is extremely important in dealing with any problem or crisis.

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

This is me telling the truth. It just so happens to be a very explosive truth.

If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are placed there to keep you from telling the truth. The more you see things as clearly and coldly as you can, the more value you're going to have.

The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

When you're on stage, unless you surrender to the moment, you're not telling the truth. I look for people that tell me the truth.

The French are simply incapable of telling the truth.

I never criticized one person in any way that I did not believe was true. How am I a mean guy if I'm telling the truth? Because nobody wants to hear the truth.

I really think that people never go wrong by telling the truth.

When I look at material, I get excited by things that are telling the truth because that's what you want to do: tell somebody else's truth.

I've always been an artist who's about being real and about telling the truth and making music with integrity and talking about something.

I like having my lips done. It's my personal thing; it makes me happy. I'm honest about it; I could lie. At least I'm telling the truth!

As far as rapping goes, as long as you are telling the truth and you have a good flow, then you win.

I've been doing this for a long time, telling the truth.

As an actor, you want to know if you're keeping a secret or telling the truth.

Standing up for what you believe in and being honest, telling the truth are all very liberating things.