Quotes About Genuineness

God, I've cried twice today! It's so un-me.

H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.

The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.

There's two kinds of people, kid: the kind who pretend they are, and the kind who pretend they aren't. Take my advice and don't be neither.

If you are honest with yourself, your life will be so much more pleasant.

What I'm saying is, where have all the real people gone? Where are the recognizably-human beings? Of course, it's silly of me to look them on TV commercials, no one watches ads for their true-to-life portrayals. If the ads were full of real people, they wouldn't be able to sell anything. Which is the point of this rambling column. Real people just don't sell.

the psychoanalyst is cured by his patient—provided they do not treat each other as objects, but are related to each other genuinely and productively.

Hard... What does he mean by hard? And am I like that? Or is it only that I have no time for the fraud of so-called good manners, which strews a little glitter over black truths, and thinks that that has made them disappear.

However strange or macabre some of the following incidents may seem, this is not a work of fiction.

Remember, a friend does not need you to impress him. A friend loves you because you are true to yourself, not because you agree with him. Beware of grand gestures; the real mettle of friendship is forged in life's daily workings.

I don't want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.

Innocence is the one thing you can't re-create, can only parody.

Non mento, colorisco soltanto, c'è una bella differenza.

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

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.

her friends, feeling the change, soon left off trying to be poor little imitations of grown-up people, and began at last to enjoy themselves; for true enjoyment does not consist in showing off, but in being our simple, natural selves, if people would only believe it.

How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?

The truth I'm trying to convey is not a startling one, it is simply a peeling away of affectation. I use whatever gift I have to get behind the facade.

I don't want any gimmicks. The fact that people think that Whack is a gimmick is so crazy.

I made 'Whale Rider', I saw that to be specific and authentic is to be universal, and I've continued to work in an identical way ever since.

The issue is sometimes when people are themselves, like, what if you suck, you know? There's a good chance you're not gonna resonate and not be relatable to people. You gotta be a goodhearted, positive person. And a lot of YouTubers I've met anyways are.

I think, at the end of the day, it comes down to authenticity and creating what you love.

First and foremost, play what you love to play. Don't try to jump on a bandwagon or a trend or a popular musical craze.