Quotes About Authenticity

The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie - a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life.

Honesty is what brings people to change and that's what i'm trying to learn in life.

As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.

I was mentioning with the digital camera, maybe this new fashion of filmmaking gives a closer look of what life may be like. But it's still nothing but a copy.

I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it.

Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.

When the cartoonist is trying to talk honestly and seriously about life, then I believe he has a responsibility to think beyond satisfying the market's every whim and desire.

I've been myself my whole life.

If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, 'You just blew your entire life.'

I made a decision that to me, photography had to be something that I could feel. I could feel in my stomach. I could not take pictures that were not connected to my own inner life.

You can't go through life trying to please everyone.

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.

You should not separate your life from what you do.

I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.

Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.

Live your life; whatever that life may be.

The stage is the place I feel comfortable - it's almost as if real life is where I feel most nervous. Conversations are a lot more nerve-wracking.

When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.

I tell you this: The purpose of life is not to please God. The purpose of life is to know, and to recreate, Who You Are.

Live the wonderful life that is in you.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.