Quotes About Genuineness

That's always fun to play: the person who can be truthful and blunt, and people take it because that's who she is.

I prize something that feels authentic. It's an undefinable thing, but I know it when I see it, and I think audiences do, too. One of the reasons why 'Bloody Sunday' and 'United 93' work is because they felt real, felt truthful.

It has to come from a truthful place in order to be funny.

Singers, musicians, and songwriters don't want to use the word "acting" because we want it to be more real than that - we want it to come from us: naturally, truly, really.

No one who really wants to count for God can afford to play at Christianity.

The most important thing is to be happy and true to yourself. I don't want to look back at this in 30 years from now and say, 'I did it all to make them happy and I didn't enjoy.'

I am not a political figure, nor do I want to be one; but I come with my heart.

In reply to 'how do I flirt with people?': Just be yourself and not want anything out of anybody. Desire is the killer of all smoothness.

It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.

Life's too short to pretend and play games like that. I want to spend my time hanging out with people who make me feel good about myself. People who make me happy.

I don't have to edit myself. I get to be me, warts and all, and that's ultimately what people want, and to trust each other implicitly.

People want to believe you are sincerely interested in them as a person, not just what they can do for you.

I found at this point that effective acting wasn't what I wanted to do, that I didn't want to make effects, that I wanted, as it were, to leave an impression of a particular kind of human being.

I like to keep my Twitter pure. I don't want to sell my followers anything.

We do have to remain true to the idea of honesty within what you want to do.

I don't care so much about form. Perhaps I did in the beginning, a long time ago. But now I just want to be as straight and simple and as true as possible.

If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don't listen to them that much.

I don't know how I want to come across looking, really. I just look how I am.

Women want to see the truth. They don't want to see some perfect girl.

The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?

The thing about any character is that you want to be sincere.

If I meet someone at a bus stop, I want to really meet that person. I don't want to be 'Hugh Jackman, the famous actor.'

People want more real artistes. They want girls who can actually sing and play an instrument and write their own songs - that's not fake and manufactured anymore".

I get so used to saying what I think people want to hear, I forget they might just want the truth sometimes.