Quotes About Unpretentiousness

The best actors are children and dogs because they're not acting at all." — Helen Mirren

I totally remove myself from any costumes, wardrobe, any choreography. I could care less about that stuff.

Simplicity The inward reality of single-hearted focus upon God and his kingdom, which results in an outward lifestyle of modesty, openness, and unpretentiousness and which disciplines our hunger for status, glamour, and luxury

However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.

The Virtue and unpretentiousness of the wise man, which I am talking about, goes unnoticed because of its transparent ordinariness.

I don't think of myself as hot or cool or anything, just a dork.

I think everyone is most confident when they are just being themselves and not trying to impress others.

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

Successful American presidents project a populist image. They do not place themselves above their compatriots but strive whenever possible to show qualities typical of "average" Americans. If they have an intellectual bent, they do their best to hide it. To be likable, smiling, and unpretentious is all-important, to express the values of middle America an essential prerequisite for greatness.

Class is about what one drives and where one shops and how one prays, and only secondarily about the work one does or the income one makes. What makes one a member of the noble proletariat is not work per se, but unpretentiousness, humility, and the rest of the qualities that our punditry claims to spy in the red states that voted for George W. Bush.

I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.

You took her as she was. She wasn't trying to impress anyone," said Claude Nunnelly.

I like to be myself, and I don't pretend. For instance, I don't dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

Being cool, is not trying to be cool.

I just try to be a regular dude.

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

One reason why birds and horses are happy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and hoses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

Casualness is the enemy of pretense.