Quotes About Authenticity

Wear your heart on your skin in this life.

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.

Lead a life of your own design, on your own terms -not one that others, or the environment have scripted for you.

I tried all my life to be a normal person. Stars are in the sky. I like cooking and gardening.

I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should.

We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

In real life I'm not the one who's playing with guns or smoking.

My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend.

All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.

If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.

My own laugh is the real thing and I've had it all my life.

How many Christians live for appearances? Their life seems like a soap bubble. The soap bubble is beautiful, with all its colours! But it lasts only a second, and then what?

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. .... There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment and a choice.

I try to live honestly in every aspect of my life, which can make things a bit more complicated, right?

I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!

When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.

You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when it's a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life, not a cliche others have formulated for you.

Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take.

I won't change anything in my life I'm staying myself tonight

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through

Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.