Quotes About Genuineness

I was never a white guy pretending to be black. Not once, ever, did it occur to me that I was being phony or fraudulent or fake. Quite the opposite - I always believed I was living the truest form of my self.

A person who is truly authentic doesn't need to play a role in life, we think, but can simply be him - or herself.

Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do the essential traits in our character first reveal themselves. But truly in the little things the real self is exteriorised.

I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

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. And it is the truth. I don't know.

People say they hate having fake people around, but when you keep it real, they hate you even more. People don't like the truth.

There's is a fine line between living one's truth and looking good.

Documentary is reality. It shows the truth.

You can't argue with the truth.

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

At the end of the day, I believe truth is stronger than any lie that's out there.

The truth is, I'm pretty lighthearted.

Don't be part of the spectacle; be truthful about what you care about and speak from the heart.

Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.

It's so much easier to be truthful. Maybe I'm just too lazy to lie.

I try and be truthful.

I always look for reality. I look for plain truthful roles.

I'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.

I just like talking, and I'm really truthful. Sometimes things come out of my mouth, and I think, 'Maybe I shouldn't have said that,' but at the end of the day, I am who I am! When I'm not acting, I'm going to be fully Hayley Hasselhoff, and that's what you're going to get. And I enjoy that.