Quotes About Authenticity

Thank god Shonda Rhimes had this agenda to make television look like life, to make it look like the real world.

I hope my head doesn't get very big. I'm just going to keep my feet on the ground, stick to friends and family and try to lead a normal life.

Anyone who says he is not emotional is not getting what he should out of life.

No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.

All my life I've been pleasin' everyone but me, waking up in someone else's dream.

I draw from life - but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage.

Maybe people [in Hollywood] wear really nice clothes, and they drive really nice cars, but that doesn't make me comfortable. And if I'm not comfortable, it won't be a part of my life.

I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.

So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.

Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.

Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.

I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial.

Feel that life likes you just the way you are; otherwise, it would have made you differently.

An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.

I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.

Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.

If you did not care at all what anyone else thought about you, what would you do differently or change in your life?

I don't want to be one of those people that's constantly promoting myself on Twitter. I think the fun thing about Twitter is being able to share all the little random things that happen in my life.

I feel it's most important to keep it real and enjoy each moment, you know, take advantage of every opportunity life provides, because who knows what tomorrow may bring

Take it from your own life, write what you believe in.

I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply.

When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you're living a less performed life.

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal – well, semi-normal.