Quotes About Genuineness

Being slick is not the right answer.

If I go to the store, I'm not trying to slip in the middle of the aisle so I can talk about it onstage. I'm at the store because I need food or medicine.

When you're not authentic to yourself, you're lying. You're going to get found out and you're going to slip up.

Just as someone who's been interested in radio and programming for so long, I can usually tell when an interviewer is doing a segment just to fill a programming slot. They ask questions, but they don't care about the answers.

I feel there is no prescribed notion about how strong or how smart one should be. I rather believe one should be themselves and be true to everyone.

I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.

People can smell when things aren't genuine.

I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.

People can smell a fake.

Keep it simple. Tell the truth. People can smell the truth.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

You just have to be authentic. You can't fake a smile. You have to do what you actually enjoy.

As long as you are doing things with a smile on your face, and you are having fun, then you are being unfiltered.

I'm an open book. I speak to people all the time and generally have a smile on my face. I'm true to who I am, so you can never always smile and be happy.

If you're authentic, people smile because they sense there's a piece of themselves there.

I smile a lot in my real life.

Everyone else has days when they don't want to smile, when you just want to come in and be regular.

I don't want to be known as a 'player.' I don't want to give plastic smiles on television and say 'No comments.'

I don't think you should try to be anything you're not. If you're not smiling all the time or always happy - I don't think it matters. If you're having bad day, show you're having a bad day. Don't try to put up something that's fake.

People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.

I feel that I don't have to have it all together all the time. I don't have to be this smiling face for the public.

Smiling makes a huge difference. A lot of people walk the red carpet and try to be sexy. I don't do that; I always smile.

It's hard for me to fake smile. I personally think I look stupid fake smiling.

There's no smoke and mirrors here.