Quotes About Genuineness

Audiences can tell when you're being fake and they will eat you alive. But if you're doing something authentic they will connect to it and that can lead to commercial success.

La vie est trop courte pour que nous en perdions une part précieuse à nous contrefaire.

Holiness doesn't require a halo, folded hands, or an otherworldly preoccupation.

but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.

Interesting, but she could see that the boy didn't have a single lie in him. A very rare condition, especially for the male of the species.

You think you know somebody, but what do you know? Only what they want to show you. Remember, it's what's inside that matters.

Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if that reason is not always apparent.

Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated.

what is good is integral to itself. That is also why it is not worthwhile to change yourself, your hair or skin or eyes. What is integral to you will always be superior to what is tacked on, simply because it is yours.

She was a literal speaker. What she expressed she both felt and was.

Let things taste of what they are.

The truth may be inconvenient, but it's better than anything else.

AUTHENTIC, adj. Indubitably true — in somebody's opinion.

The circumstances I am about to relate to you have truth to recommend them.

You knew what was real not by its qualities but by its imperfections.

The thing I'm hung up on is the idea of seeing something real. I don't think most people feel half the things they pretend to feel.

It's hard to be something that you're not. It's hard to keep everyone happy, wear different masks, and pretend, depending on who you're with. You know what's easy: being you, being real, being vulnerable.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same colour.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

Investigate what is, and not what pleases.

Live the life you're living and try and stay who you are

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.

My own laugh is the real thing and I've had it all my life.