Quotes About Authenticity

One thing Jim McGreevey wants the world to know: Leading a double life as a gay man trying to appear straight was easy for him to pull off. He was 'good' at it. Not only that - it helped him become a better politician.

I feel the most pulled together when I'm going for the tomboyish thing.

I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.

On some level, every story draws something from life experiences. Most of the time, it's just a matter of me pulling bits and pieces of my own past to help give characters or settings a little more life.

Kids know when you're pulling a fast one, storywise, and I think that even when they're being entertained, children want to hear the truth, just like adults do.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places.

I like people who have a pulse and aren't afraid to show it.

I don't want to pump myself full of collagen. That's not what I'm about.

You know, I find people with great honesty, bodily, physical honesty, who sit just the way they like to sit, and walk the way they like to walk, and don't come into a room all pumped up, I find them elegant.

That's one of the real downfalls of celebrity. You're something that's about you at some point, and that gets latched onto and pumped into the machinery. Then you start having a million other people telling you who you are, and what you should be doing and why, and it's easy to lose your way.

My story's been an open book for a long time, no pun intended.

If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face because I'm lying.

In this age of social media, it is easy to punch out a phrase 'thoughts are with the family' when something bad occurs, and at times, it is insincere.

We've never tried to be anybody else but Five Finger Death Punch.

Non-disabled actors should not still be playing disabled characters in 2020. We're better than that. It's frankly offensive and archaic and it makes me so angry I want to punch a wall.

I think, as writers, our first responsibility is to writing an honest story. Tell the story you want to tell, without pulling your punches.

I think, to me, I always want to tell the truth. I never want to sugarcoat things. I've never been accused of pulling punches.

I'm from the era before the Internet, so I know what's real and what's not so you've just got to learn to roll with the punches.

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.

You cannot change who you are, so don't punish yourself for your shortcomings. Know who you are, give it your best, and celebrate it.

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

People can have their punk ideals, but I don't really care about that kind of thing.

Inside and outside of the ring, what you see is what you get. I'm CM Punk. I'm not trying to be something I'm not. I'm not trying to lie to the people or be fake. I'm not trying to be some crazy, outlandish character.

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.