Quotes About Genuineness

But people who do not know me are surprised to see me as a real person I guess.

People are surprised when Hollywood characters act the way a real person would.

That's what has always been so surprising for The Seekers - when you think they try to create pop stars in a contrived, manufactured way and we were just four people who just happened to meet and sing together.

Do I have to be polite?" I asked. "Or can I just be natural?

Authenticity is boring, credibility is important

I'm not going to pretend to be something I'm not - to smile sweetly all the time - just to get recognition and love. I won't play the whore for anyone, least of all for journalists. I can't do that. I want to be loved, yes, but the way I am and not the way people would like me to be. I have to be allowed to be myself.

I want to be liked for what I do, not for what I pretend to be. I try - maybe too forcefully at times - to have the courage of my convictions and to stand my ground when necessary.

Kimse kendi karakterine özgü olmayan bir ÅŸey yapmaz.

You're not fooling anyone by taking your clothes off when you go to bed.

Ann says I fabricate these feelings. But so what? I still have them.

Working with the morning pages, we begin to sort through the differences between our real feelings, which are often secret, and our official feelings, those on the record for public display.

Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.

I've always thought you are what you are and you shouldn't pretend to be anyone else. But Oliver used to correct me and explain that you are whoever it is you're pretending to be.

Is there anything more plausible than a second hand?

Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.

How very different it would be to live somewhere where people weren't afraid to reveal themselves, where emotion was prized instead of hidden.

I think I would rather just live my life," Teddy said, "not make an artifice of it.

A man may smile and bid you hail Yet wish you to the devil; But when a good dog wags his tail, You know he's on the level.

I love a straightforward character. I am the guy who loves Cyclops on the 'X-Men', because he is square.

I do not play games, but always just say what's on my mind. Ostentatious modesty - for fools. If a man afraid of your honesty, it means that he is not the one you need.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

I was just getting tired of the image bullshit...that man of mystery trip and what have you. What's that all about?

Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field.

In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.