Quotes About Authenticity

You can compromise on anything else in your life but love. It's the one time where under no circumstances should you let yourself have second rate.

Write what you really care about. Write what you want to say because that is the experience that always rates as genuine on the page.

I prefer to be a good human being rather than a good character on screen.

Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.

I don't think that the next generation should fear just being who they are rather than confirming to an expectation of what they are meant to be.

I'd rather not have anything than be a liar.

I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.

I'd rather be real in the ring then someone who is trying to play a character.

I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.

I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.

Larger-than-life roles have never excited me. I'd rather play someone real who goes through obstacles and becomes a hero.

I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.

As humans, we are not so rationalist as we think we are. I think our biggest quality is indeed that we are human, truly human: if our biggest quality would be rationality, we would lose our soul.

We don't feel like we changed from rave, because we were never rave, to punk, because we're not punk.

To me, 'rant' was ranting and raving. So to me, it's heightened. emotional flipping out, frothing at the mouth. Where I grew up, that was a rant. I don't consider what I'm doing ranting.

Philly gives me that raw edge. We just do us.

People like the feeling of access that is very raw, unedited, and inspirational.

I'm being my real raw self, and that's what I always preach anyway. What you see is what you get.

I'm going for something very raw and organic.

I will a hundred percent sell out. Because I'll always be myself... my raw, authentic self.

I wasn't into jazz so much - I preferred things raw.

As far as 'Dahmer' and 'Jumanji' are concerned, with both of them, they felt super raw and affecting, but in their own ways. I also thought 'Jumanji' was completely not trying to be anything except what it was, and I found it to be hilarious.

I write exactly what I think. If it's a raw subject, I write lots of things and then pull out all the fluff words.

A lot of the work I've done has been about being very raw and open with your emotions.