Quotes About Genuineness

I just try to be myself in interviews, you do get a lot of people that change, put a front on to try and be something they're not.

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

I'm just someone who cannot fake it. I can only do something with my full heart invested or just not do it at all.

I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic.

I think that having comedy where people talk the way they really talk, when you talk with your friends and whatever, it's really, it's important. Or else you're making stuff that's a little bit watered down and irrelevant.

I'm not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that's not me.

We're not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom.

I don't think I do look like an A-Lister. I'm more interested in being comfortable in my own skin than trying to be somebody I'm not. Gimme jeans, an old T-shirt, cowboy boots and a baseball cap any day.

Me and my friends, we wear jeans and no make-up. And people still love us.

Joe Cocker never sounded forced. Crazy, perhaps, but not forced.

I am what I was before joining films. Nothing has changed, and I hope nothing will ever change. I'll always remain the way I am.

Not everybody should be laughing at everything at the same time. That's not even natural. My thing is to feel natural, because I don't want to feel like I could just make people laugh at every single joke, every single time, with the same decibel level.

My goal is to be exactly how I am offstage - although I realize I'm supposed to punctuate it with jokes.

When I tell a joke, I don't think about who's listening to it. I tell the jokes I think are funny.

Early on, I had a girlfriend come see me, and she was like, 'Yeah, it was good, but you were funny at a dining hall at the University of Maryland.' That's when I realized I was contrived. I was reciting jokes. So I really worked on - no matter what - sounding like I was just talking to the people.

I'm not one of those people who are, like, always joking in person.

Let us wash the cosmetics from our souls and look at the unadorned condition of our hearts.

We know our own inner states imperfectly and often mislead both ourselves and those around us. We're masters of fake happiness, suppressed fear, and misguided love.

It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it's real. If it's contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can't filter out the real and unreal.

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world's weather

Our work is to present things that are as they are.

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

Sincerity in this case is not just honesty. It's something deeper than that. The word is used to indicate a state that is completely open and unaffected. It is us, as we truly are, without any attempt to disguise ourselves, even in the ways we usually disguise ourselves to ourselves.