Quotes About Genuineness

Just be yourself. As an actor, you pretend all day - that's what the job calls for. So, when it comes to my personal life, a woman who keeps it real is a breath of fresh air.

As for the kind of writer I am? I am who I don't pretend to be.

I like befriending my collaborators because I'd rather make music with people I like than people I pretend to like.

I don't even watch basketball. I can't even pretend.

I'm very honest about my food background; I've never tried to pretend like I was a chef.

I just try not to pretend to be something I'm not.

I don't like it when people act extra-familiar and pretend that they are my best friends when they are actually not.

You have to be yourself. You can't pretend to be somebody else.

If you want your rock stars that are completely 100 percent serious about themselves and you want them to pretend like they're 25, I'm probably not the guy for that. But if you want to come and say, 'Hey, you know that guy right there, he's just being himself. I kind of like him for that,' you know, then that's me.

I can't pretend to do something I don't like.

I don't like how sometimes people pretend to not be a certain way.

I can't pretend that I'm happy or pretend to get emotional when I'm not.

It is too exhausting to try and make everyone happy or pretend.

I don't try to be something I'm not, I don't try to pretend that I'm something I'm not, I don't try to present myself as something I'm not.

I'd rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than faking it and pretending like I'm this face of women's basketball, when I can't stand the sport at all.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.

The best thing to do when you're writing is to write about something you know instead of pretending. I mean, you can do that too, obviously, but when you write from your heart, it works so much better.

I think the best people are the ones who are just as nice and fun. This is really cheesy, but you only have one life - why spend most of it pretending to be cool?

We're not pretending to be somebody else. We're being ourselves; we're doing what we do, and people have trust that they put in that, that we won't compromise on our ideals. And it really paid off.

What I love about Nivea is they're all about authenticity. The brand isn't pretending to be anything it isn't.

Farooque Sahab was so natural. It never seemed as if he was pretending to be a character that a scriptwriter or director had merely handed to him.

People say to me, 'Ooh, L.A. is so plastic.' Sure, it's mountains to the right, oceans to the left and pretense in the middle, but who... has to hang out in the middle?

Good food is good food. It doesn't have to come with pretense.