Quotes About Authenticity

A person's own opinion is the best companion of his life, but first search it on web to ensure that it is truly his own and not others thrown or well known in one or other words form.

Life's too short to worry about injecting botulism into your face to get rid of a tiny line because you've laughed too much. To me, that's a bit warped.

I would rather be hated every damn day of my life for being real than loved for being something I'm not.

I think for a lot of people that are in performing arts, it's easy to fall into the trap of starting to confuse what's real life and what's not, because to your body it's all real.

I would like to get married, actually. I've done everything else in my life now except that, but where do I find the real thing? The non-phony? In Los Angeles? I am not so sure.

Acting to me is real life - I don't act.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.

Some people believe that they should have two different lives, and one is what they show on TV and one is their personal life. I am not that person.

It felt to me like I was living my life in a way that didn't make mockery of my values. That's what I intended to do. So, that became a very radicalizing proposition for me.

In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.

I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.

You say you're looking for someone who'll pick you up each time you fall, to gather flowers constantly and to come each time you call, a lover your life and nothing more. But it ain't me, babe.

It's your life, live it your way.

Paul Simon is my absolute hero. He's one of a kind. He wrote his own ticket in life by being himself.

I think it would be really hypocritical of me to make the films I make, where I delve into people's lives, to say that my life can't be looked at or that I have to be this pristine, isolated figure.

Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine.

For me, once I count the band in, and I delve deep into my song, I feel a certain sort of integrity and integration that I rarely find in my daily life.

Surrender is the path to freedom through our unique authenticity, where we experience the flow of life not through the narrow lens of the mind, but through the vast refuge of the heart.

I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.

In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.

Life is all we have, and if we can't look at it honestly, are we really living?

My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped into my own.

I know that life, I've done all those things, and I can still tell you that just being you is perfectly fine.