Quotes About Authenticity

Knowing who you really are and dressing the part -- with an air of amused recklessness -- is life affirming for you and life enhancing for other people.

How can a motion picture reflect real life when it is made by people who are living artificial lives?

If you listen to your soul you will know what is "best" for you, because what is best for you is what is true for you.

Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade.

Coen brothers movies are not always what life looks like but it's definitely what life feels like.

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

You show me someone who's led a perfect life and I'll show you a dullard.

A life that is planned is a closed life, my friend. It can be endured but it cannot be lived.

Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.

If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

A person's true nature will reveal itself despite disguise.

There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.

The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie.

I'm gonna live my life. I won't watch the time go by. I won't keep it inside. Freak out, let it go.

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.

I live my life because I dare. I dare to show up when everyone else might hide their faces and hide their bodies in shame.

I know my body. What happened is that I got so caught up in the applause I forgot how I should dance. All my life I've been what others wanted - in dancing and in life. Now I'm doing it my way.

We need to confront the life-killing stereotype that says we're all about suffering. We need to bear witness to our pleasures.

The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

You look how you look

And so I pray I am today as honest with myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter.

I never pay attention, to no numbers, no views, comments ... I just try to keep on going, keep on living my life so I can continue to put out music that's real.