Quotes About Genuineness

I'm incapable of hiding my feelings when I'm around someone I don't like.

I can say the people you see on TV are real-life individuals, not just people playing a role, myself included.

Children are far more interesting to work with than grownups. They're incredibly honest. They'll tell you exactly what they think.

A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth.

It's better to be HATED for who you ARE then Loved for who you ARE NOT!

A beau needs to love you for who you are, not who you're tryin' to be.

I don't just try to be funny.

That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.

I would rather people take me as straightforward and not have to wonder if I'm kidding or not. Because what I have to say, and what I'm interested in doing and communicating, is worthwhile enough that I don't want to muck it up with people being confused about where I'm really coming from.

It's not all Instagram worthy!

I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.

I would classify myself as an individual. That's what I try to stay true with - being myself, 100 percent.

The only way to make a scene realistic is to do it the way you know it would really happen.

I'll see something, and I'll go, 'Oh, wow, that's interesting,' because really, comedy comes from the truth.

Most people when they see me cry for a shot, say, 'Wow, what a natural!' But I actually do cry and break down.

There is a balance between mindful that you don't upset anyone, yet maintaining an authenticity that is not wrapped up in the minutiae of people's judgments of you.

That is the thing that wrestling is, we are who we are. Even when we are established we are not actors. We are wrestlers.

I always tell young, up and coming professional wrestlers, when you're trying to play a character that's not really you, it's going to be difficult and fans can register that. Sometimes it's not even consciously, it's subconsciously they pick up on it.

I found out in pro wrestling that it works better if you just try and be yourself versus working on something you're not, so I'm me, and maybe it's magnified a bit, but it's easier just being me.

The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.

In the end, all disguises must drop.

The overdressed traveller betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveller knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.

Klara seemed, on the contrary, frequently to be emerging. Not from silence into sociability—something other than that. From herself into herself—as if she had been born bearing multiple veils of Klara, and they were all legitimate. Echt.

I have an idea of who I wish I were, and that obscures my understanding of who I actually am. Sometimes I pretend even to myself to enjoy activities that I don't really enjoy, such as shopping, or to be interested in subjects that don't much interest me, such as foreign policy.