Quotes About Authenticity

If the original of any of your characters would win a libel case against you, you have failed to create a real character.

I'm myself, not a label.

A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.

But authentic worship also has depth.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words then your words without heart.

If your only nice to the people that are nice to you, big deal; what do you want, a gist certificate? Everyone does that. And if you only say "hi" in the hall to the people that say hi to you, what are doing more than anyone else? Maybe you know people who are different when they're alone than when they're with their friends. they might say "hi" to you if your alone, but with a group they act like they've never seen you.

We don't LOVE our Grandmas because they look like super models. We love them because of WHO they are

Popularity ends on yearbook day-Respect stays forever.

love, and I wanted to know what it felt like. I didn't want Hollywood's definition; I wanted one I could trust. Some of my questions included: Can you choose to fall in love with someone? Is falling in love a spiritual feeling?

A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.

there is no real shortcut to gaining someone's trust,

We don't take the time to be vulnerable with each other

Films today show only a dream world and have lost touch with the way people really are... In this country, people die at 21. They die emotionally at 21, maybe younger... My responsibility as an artist is to help people get past 21... The films are a roadmap through emotional and intellectual terrain that provides a solution on how to save pain.

The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

There is a world of difference between inference and conjecture, and imagination must not roam at the cost of authenticity. Paul

The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely do not subscribe to.

Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.

That's a typical tomboy thing; I did the same thing. You're just a tomboy.' But I was saying to myself, No, it's not quite like that. I don't think that's quite it.

It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becoming diminished in their eyes, but another entirely to be brave when there is nobody to witness your courage. The latter is an elemental bravery, a strength of spirit and character.

because a man who is everybody's friend really has no friends at all.

Real life was curious enough without the embellishments of fiction.

all presented one face to the world, and kept another hidden. Nobody could survive in it otherwise.

After all, no relationship could function or survive under the burden of total honesty.