Quotes About Authenticity

Just play with sincerity, give the performance of your life with everything you've got.

I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.

Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that's missing.

Christianity is neither a system of ideas nor of morality but a way, a way of life.

Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.

I will always approach life from a small-town vibe. It makes experiences more fantastical.

If you don't tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth about your own life, someone may claim the right to tell it for you.

If we devote ourselves to the life at hand, the rest will follow. For life, it seems, reveals itself through those willing to live. Anything else, no matter how beautiful, is just advertising.

My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life.

Sometimes I don't feel like the person that I'm supposed to be. I don't feel like I deserve any of this.

Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.

I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life.

People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.

Don't write poems to make girls like you, because it will not make them like you but it will give them something to quote back at you later in life.

Life is about doing the things that make you happy, not the things that please other people. If you can please other people, that's a plus, but as long as you're not hurting anyone, you're golden.

Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.

Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.

Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.

I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.

I never say "Action" or "Cut." Never. I think that would disturb the life from happening in and around everything.

I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.

If we could only live the way we know deep down we should, we would guarantee ourselves a life of richness & fulfillment.

If you hide behind the things you don't want to talk about then you're going to feel insecure in all aspects of your life.

It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else.