Quotes About Genuineness

Never apologize for saying what/how you feel. Cuz' that's like saying, "Sorry for being real".

Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they're after an image, not a person.

the best disguises were those that were poured out of the heart rather than painted on the face.

I'm not really cool, or dashing, or any of those things.

Spending time in a church does not make you religious, any more than spending time in a garage makes you a car.

Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way.

I'm the same person. I don't put on a face. I'm the same guy every time you see me.

I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.

I don't really believe in that "you need to make them come to you" kind of thing. I'm like, I'll come to her and if she's cool I'll stick around, and if she's not, then I'll leave at any time.

When you see Liana [Liberato], who at the time was 14, there is an inexperience and innocence that you can't act and you can't fake.

These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine.

Any time I'm on-screen it is realistic because I don't pull my punches or anything like that.

I'm one Pia Zadora, the same way all the time. That's why I'm happy. It took me a long time to get to the point where could be myself all the time.

I tend not to be someone who's on all the time, or is always trying to make other people laugh.

I don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore.

I've always tried to be honest, and it would be too difficult for me to develop some kind of persona. I don't have enough time or energy for that.

I don't sit in my room and hide the whole time. I think people know my spirit is real.

I don't have to be glamorous all the time.

My favorite author's question of all time - because it's so simple to answer ... 'Is your hair really like that, or do you get it done?

Certain people do need to stay in character the whole time, and that's just what they require as a person.

Now if I cry on screen I think it's mint. Because I think that's how that person would feel at that time. And if it doesn't, then it just doesn't happen.

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and then they would be honest so much earlier.

On Theodore Roosevelt] I always enjoy his society, he is so hearty, so straightforward, outspoken and, for the moment, so absolutely sincere.

If I had had a drinking problem, I would have hidden it, but I didn't so I didn't.