Quotes About Authenticity

Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

I realize that you have to show up for your life.

The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.

I don't have a life-style, I have a life.

In 'Imitation of Life', I was showing how a girl might feel under the circumstances, but I am not showing how I felt.

Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map to self discovery.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

You have to know yourself and know what you can carry. If you're not comfortable, no matter how well dressed you are, you're not going to look right. I'd rather be happy and feel comfy.

Do it from the heart or not at all.

I've spent my life being embarrassed.

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

Nothing spells shame like living what feels like a double life.

Find out who you really are, then accept who you are. Fight for your life every day to be who you are.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.

What makes a woman stylish is what she has to say and how she chooses to live her life.

My real life helped me sell a lot of records.

Real life doesn't have to be convincing, but fiction does.

I think that you've got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.

I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.

The purpose of life is to know yourself, create yourself, experience yourself as Who You Really Are. There is no other reason to do anything.

I wear my heart on my sleeve and live my life as openly and honestly as I can.

I'll never make any resolutions. Drop all resolutions! Let life be a natural spontaneity. The only golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

There have been people in my life who have told me I have to put myself out there more. But it's so hard for me to do that.