Quotes About Authenticity

In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind of a ragged edge at the end of a novel.

In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age.

In fact, I am aware of the fake entities in my life. I know that I can clear them if I wanted to in a moment. But all this hollowness Needs my Sincerity.

Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.

It is very important for an actor or actress to look around at everything and everyone and never forget about real life.

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska-punk scene. It's such an expressive form of popular music, it's so real, it's got so much life: it's the most vital music in the world.

The fact speak for themselves.

A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that's one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that's entirely different.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

I don't lie; I improve on my life.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

I've never lived my life by the expectations society puts on you. When something doesn't feel right or isn't going the way it should, I listen to my instincts and change it.

True masters are those who've chosen to make a life rather than a living.

There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.

I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.

We need to forget what we think we are, so that we can really become what we are.

Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.

I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

Whatsoever you hide goes on growing, and whatsoever you expose, if it is wrong it disappears, evaporates in the sun, and if it is right it is nourished.

Though the universe is delightfully complex, life, at its heart, is not particularly complicated. Live true to who you are and though it won't always be easy, you'll live well.

It's not longer 'Look what I can do, I can do it better then you.' It's just I am.

Live life without being afraid of judgment from others because judgment from other sinners is invalid.