Quotes About Authenticity

What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.

You can't use irony as a way of disengaging with the difficult or emotional aspects of life.

I can only live my life in this way. I don't think I would be living it a different way if I wasn't acting.

. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.

My job is to focus on bringing characters to life in an honest and personal way.

Everything I've written up to now, hasn't had anything to do with my life really.

Be who you are. Find your own voice. Lead from the heart

One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.

But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.

In my entire life I never set out to do anything ground-breaking or pioneering, and I'm not going to start anytime soon.

It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters.

You can't make a good show based on pure verisimilitude, pure anti-drama. But you have to acknowledge a lot of ordinary life. Most TV doesn't do that.

I will not die an unlived life.

I've managed to keep my career going in a way that suits me. I'll perform, and then I'll go home to my actual life, and I've never been so visible.

Drugs have played no significant factor in my life.

Reality trumps rationality.

No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can't be open with them about who you truly are, you're still alone.

I don't have a publicist, I don't go to events, I don't do magazines, and it's just not my life.

We need to continually look within ourselves. Contemplate our inner being and find our own unique voice and then learn to heed it and we will then have the life experience we deserve.

Some people fake their death, I'm faking my life.

Every once in awhile, when you can see shades of the person's real interior life, I think that's interesting.

You have to live life if you're going to create believable lives on paper.

I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.

As authentic as it is riveting and ultimately unforgettable. Your past will find you-and it can change your life. I think it's the most soulful book Patti Callahan has ever written.