Quotes About Genuineness

Dallas Winston: Are you a real red head? Are you real? How can I find out if this is your real red hair? If this is the same red hair you have on your, uh, your, your, these eyebrows.

But as bald men with cheap hairpieces always seem to forget, acting as though you have something and actually having it are not the same thing, and anyone who looks closely can tell the difference.

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.

Younger viewers have a very strong detector for what's real and legit and what's phony or pandering.

I'm not out to max my income. I think my viewers would call me on that right away if I did.

I never want to feel more than the viewers. I'm not trying to be an automaton. It's like when you see people laughing on camera, and you don't find it funny as a viewer - it's an offputting experience.

There's a genuineness that I hope I offer to viewers.

When I say things, when I speak on television, I'm not making stuff up. I'm not, like, sitting in the back with a notepad thinking, 'Maybe this will make them think I'm crazy'. That's how I really am, you know? My views on this and that, which I really don't want to delve into, but my views are that of the real me. There is no character.

A lot of other bands have tried to go out there and say we've got views on this and views on that. But some of it I've found opportunist. Duran Duran has always been honest about everything. We've always laid everything out.

You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.

I'm not a virtue signaler.

Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.

Authenticity, living your truth, kindness - these are necessary virtues.

The authentic self is the soul made visible.

The people who are watching us--the people who really see us--don't care about the false self, about the show we're putting on.

It's the rare person whose outside matches up with who they are inside.

There is little I can expound on when the truth is spoken.

Anyone who ever had a heart, He wouldn?t turn around and break it. Anyone who ever played a part, he wouldn?t turn around and fake it. Sweet Jane

dat een mensch meestal beter is, dieper denkt, edeler voelt dan hij schijnen laat in de iederen-daagsche banaliteit van het leven, die hem dwingt zich te bemoeien met nietsjes en woorden, ieder ogenblik.

You know Gabri, he wears his heart on his sleeve.' In fact, there were times Olivier wondered whether Gabri hadn't been born inside out. Before

'Tis easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue-- 'Tis the natural way of living.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretense of it saps the very foundation of character.