Quotes About Genuineness

Portray the world for what it is, and you will find truth.

We're not the characters that we portray online, and even if we are, we're a 10-time version of ourselves. That's still not us. Most of the things we do, we wouldn't do in person.

I want to portray myself as myself.

I don't try to portray some lifestyle that I'm not living.

I don't want to try to sell myself or portray something that I'm not.

I like to portray things as close to the bone as possible.

Country music listeners really like genuineness, and I hope that's what we portray, and I think that's what we do.

When it comes to how I portray myself online, I'm trying to be as real as I can and show people every side of what I do and not just put up selfies online of me in full done-up make up and stuff.

People do things on Instagram and put on a front and try to live a life that they may not really want to live, or don't truly believe in. And that's the life that they portray. That's not the real them. We all have to be more aware of what is that's really happening inside. Are we really standing for what we believe in?

I'm just being P.J., that's the number one thing, I'm just being me. Like I'm not portraying something or acting or putting on something that I wouldn't put on every day in my life or doing anything that I wouldn't already be doing.

I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.

In my experience, growing up in Brooklyn and all that, the real tough guys didn't act tough. They didn't talk tough. They were tough, you know? I think about these politicians who try to pose as tough guys - it makes me laugh.

Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.

What's important to me is love, especially that. What's important to me is growing and evolving. But ultimately, what's important to me is being real and being authentic. I've spent enough time in my life holding poses, playing roles.

That's the way I like my posh people, up front. I like the fact that Jack Whitehall will talk about being posh, or David Mitchell.

I never want to be randomly posing with a product or putting my name to a brand arbitrarily.

I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can.

Fake is, like, the worst word you could possibly use to describe anything, you know?

The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff. What lasts is the stuff in which the artists are totally in league with the subject.

I've always considered myself a master in the art of real talk.

Consumers and retailers should always beware of imitators.

There's not a lot of conversation going on in my world about softening my image. I'm pretty much who I am.

I didn't want to act like I'm too cool for school or anything like that.

The core of people don't change... what you see is what you get.