Quotes About Genuineness

I don't have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.

Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

If you try to do a look-alike and an impersonation, then that's just not conducive to good drama.

Being consistent is way less interesting than being yourself. And if you're not interesting? Good luck with your Big Consistency Project.

I just go for what makes me feel good. Especially in 2011, it's so easy to sound like a dickhead when describing yourself because anything anyone says is a catch-word or a buzz-phrase.

I'm a really good person. I'm down to earth. I have a big heart. I have feelings. And I'm just like everybody else.

Don't worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

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

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

Think about what kind of person you are and shape your habits, and your happiness, to show what's true about you instead of thinking that you can just import the right answer from the outside.

Wearing fake happiness is as good as smearing foundation. A bit of moisture drains it all.

You can't fake joy. Authentic joy is the kind that grows out of the soil of pain and doubt and fear, because that is the reality of the world.

The truest smiles are those which spread across our faces when no one's watching us.

If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.

If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it, or you're up to something.

I hate when you have to smile for me..so nice if you'd do that spontaneously.

I felt very happy. To think that I didn't have to torture myself sitting in a smoke-filled room with a painted party smile, watching my date get drunk

If your presence doesn't work, neither will your word.

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home.

I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be.