Quotes About Genuineness

I want a woman who can go to the saloon with me, not hypocritical, fame seeking

If you ask me what people want from me, they would probably just want me to be true to what I'm doing.

I like people who don't tell you what you want to hear.

A guy should be a guy. You don't want him to be too... shiny.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

Try becoming a person people want to be with rather than conforming yourself to the false identity of what you conceive their ideal to be.

I'm not a comedy writer, I'm a comedian, so I only write stuff that I would want to say.

I come from a place of sincerity. I write about what I see and feel. I write about what I want, I don't have a political agenda. Politics may enter into a song but it always comes from the heart.

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.

If you're bored, your readers will be bored. If you're faking it, you won't get the kind of readers you want.

I would never consent to a lame publicity stunt at a time when I already want to hide.

But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.

The one thing I never want to do is act drunk or act high. You don't do it from a mental kind of place because then you're just acting.

Don't try to be different or memorable with your storytelling voice—be authentic.

This is reality, Greg.-Elliot from E.T.

Civilization, as it is often practiced today, is really manufactured, inauthentic civilization

He had no way of discerning the difference between true regality and a parody.

We're here because it's honest. I feel like being honest tonight.

Their impoverished condition somehow made them very real people. It's hard to be phony when you haven't got anything.

But it's a little like that children's book, THE VELVETEEN RABBIT, but in reverse: if you're not loved for who you are, you cease to be real. Definitely for the other person, and maybe for yourself, too.

I am a person. I am not a soap opera.

You know a dog loves you for who you are; they don't know if you're a soccer player or not. Sometimes people treat you good because you're a footballer or because you're famous, but a dog doesn't know it.

I've been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That's why I'm on social media a lot.