Quotes About Authenticity

Would you rather live your life according to the approval of others or aligned with your truth and your dreams?

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

I wanted people to see that I really am a real person. I'm not just some guy who was on a TV show, some guy engulfed in the Hollywood life. I'm just a normal guy when it comes down to it.

The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it histruth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced a falsehood.

What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.

It's a beautiful heart, not a perfect body, that leads to a beautiful life.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.

Govern thy Life and Thoughts, as if the whole World were to see the one, and read the other.

I'd like to be remembered as someone that lived life by his own rules with no regrets.

My life and happiness speaks for itself.

Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression.

My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.

We're on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what's more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?

I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.

We are here not to make something of ourselves. We are here to Be ourselves.

Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life.

If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.

Each person has his special moment of life when he unfolded himself to the fullest, felt to the deepest, and expressed himself to the utmost, to himself and to others.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

I was surprised how much Andy Cohen reveal about his insecurities and your personal life.

To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.

Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

As I always have with stand-up or anything, you kind of draw on what you're going through in your life.