Quotes About Authenticity

Just because I'm presented life in a certain way doesn't mean I do all these things. It's just something I choose to express.

Life isn't a tiptoe through the tulips

To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.

To get hwat you want out of life, all you really need to do is be honest about it, don't be afraid to go for it, and have fun while you do it -- and you'll eventually get it.

Live your life, experience something, and then you're going to have a lot of things to say. But if you hang around in Hollywood, then you're going to say the same thing as everyone else - nothing.

What if living your life, naturally created what you wanted?

It's always better to be real.

Only one thing matters: live a good, happy life. Do your heart's bidding, even when it leads you on paths that timid souls would avoid. Even when life is a torment, don't let it harden you.

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.

People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy.

Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That's really what life is about.

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

Be yourself, take control of your life.

In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.

Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.

I like to see life with its teeth out.

I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.

I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.

What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.

You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.

Life's never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you'd want it to look.