Quotes About Authenticity

I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time.

For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.

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

Nothing could be further from the authentic art of our time than the idea of a rupture of continuity. Art is - among other things - continuity, and unthinkable without it.

We're living in a time when people are struggling to appear perfect.

Rappers kinda look stupid sometimes. Most of the time. I'm pretty sure I look stupid too a lot.

We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

Share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

What you're trying to do as an actor is somehow trick yourself into believing that these words have never been said, and so you've got to discover them for the first time.

I find the songs that have the most human components in production are the ones that will stand the test of time.

When we live our lives authentically, we discover our true place in the world for the first time.

Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time to die. They have allowed themselves to live so little.

It's only when it comes to crunch time that people's true character comes out.

I open myself up every time I walk on screen and give you everything that I am. There are parts of me that are in every movie that I've done. That to me is what my job is.

I never put myself on another level and that's done well for me. Just spending time with fans and acting normal and talking to them just like I was one of their boys, that's what it's all about.

I don't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.

Everybody knows pretty much everything about me. I emptied all the skeletons out of my closet a long time ago.

Having to be nice all the time is exhausting and boring, but to play someone who just has that under layer of unhappiness, you know that it comes from someplace.

If you're an unattractive girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, forget it. If you are a beautiful girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, you will look like you're angry all the time.

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

After all, things are what they are. A message is a message, plates are plates, men are men, and life is life.

VLADIMIR BYKOVSKY, Chuvashia: "Do you allow yourself emotions?" PUTIN: "Unfortunately, I do." DOBROSLAVA

Speech is the voice of the heart.