Quotes About Genuineness

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

In a girl I look for honesty above all, someone who I can carry on a conversation with, someone who has a good sense of humor, someone who's true to herself, and to top it, someone who can get ready for a date in less than ten minutes.

I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.

I tend to like things that already exist.

I don't pretend to be any different just because I win tennis matches, so hopefully brands appreciate my approach and my likeability, because it's who I am.

You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.

The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'

Nothing is held back on 'Testimony.'

What trouble we go to, trying to fool people who see right through us anyhow.

When you try to act from what you don't really feel inside, it becomes harder to become effective at it.

Now I was going to be myself. I wasn't going to be hard to get along with or go out of my way to say anything mean, but from now on people were going to have to take me for what I was.

Our people don't have one look, one background, one culture," says Erik. "The common thread is they are themselves. They are genuine.

Jesus taught that the secret life we have with God is one of the true tests of the genuineness of our relationship with him.

como dos personas normales o como dos personas que fingen ser normales y a fuerza de fingirlo de alguna manera lo son o llegan a serlo

I wish people weren't so set on being themselves, when that means being a bastard.

There's something about seeing people when they have just wake up--before they have a chance to put on the face they show everyone else. There's like this last hint of innocence.

Do you begrudge me that I am who I truly am? Should I pretend otherwise for the sake of pleasing you? If I did, it would be a lie. Would you rather love a lie than know me as I truly am?

Here we do not believe in wasting time simply for the purpose of impressing others.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. —Henry David Thoreau

It was never meant to be a prescribed time and place for us to obsess about doing the appropriate thing at the appropriate moment all while wearing an appropriate outfit.

I've had my fill of cool, Willow. These days it's kindness, honesty, and stability that impress me.

Real life is what happens between those posts. And you only know the version people show you on Instagram. It's a fiction. And I guarantee every single one of those perfect people you see out there is feeling as lost and insecure as you are.

I'd rather be a friendless loser than have a bunch of friends who secretly hated me. (spoken by Massie Block)

The truth was no way to make a good first impression.