Quotes About Authenticity

. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .

That's what happened when my own life crumbled. The people who came into my life bolstered me to take more risks, to be even more true to myself.

. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.

What mattered to me was that I didn't compromise my soul in order to try to achieve a kind of popularity. The only thing you can do is just live your life.

I don't look for [comedic moments] actually, I just live my life.

False life is exhausting; Real Life is inexhaustible.

I have fun with it and I am honest and open about the way I lead my life and don't mislead anyone. I've had the time of my life and thank God for that, it would be such a waste otherwise.

Follow your heart and be true to yourself. Never live the life of another. You have to create your own road.

If you want to be true to life, start lying about it

I don't watch like Sci-fi or things like that, I'm always more like real life is so endlessly fascinating to me.

Hollywood large is so different than real-life large.

To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist must not impose an ending upon them.

Changing someone's life is not the best, is not wanting to change the other life. It is being who you are that changes another's life. Do you understand?

All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.

I just live my life and try to be present. When I'm present in the moment and something comes, I can capture it, because it doesn't come from me, it's out there.

On twitter, you may have a zero follower; but in real life, this is not possible because everyone has a shadow!

I don't feel like my life is that of a superstar! Every day I wake up, I take the train, I go to my ballet class. My everyday life is pretty normal.

I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my professional life as a public figure.

I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.

It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up.

I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

"You're All That" goes back to really building a life from the core of who you're. And all of those things are layers. That's just your authentic life.

I want to write stories that don't help you escape life, but embrace life.

It so often happens that somebody says 'change your life' and you repaint your car rather than re-wire the engine.