Quotes About Genuineness

Sometimes in entertainment, when people have done the Academy Awards - like, for example, in 'The Bodyguard' - I just didn't believe it; it didn't feel authentic.

Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.

Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it.

First and foremost, I just have to be myself.

Nothing is ever off the table at 'The Fosters' as long as it's based in reality.

I don't like to pay lip service. I don't frankly like to talk about stuff.

You are not going to change me and if you do, it will look like a fraud, it will be a fraud.

I believe the best friendships are forged with those you can be yourself with.

In my life and my work, I really try to be just fully myself.

I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.

I think comedy is funnier when it's real.

La verité dans sa matière brute est plus fausse que la faux.

The tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend it was anything but tea.

What a strange mind, to cover the real thing with an imitation of something real.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion.

Regardless of what amount of satire or sarcasm is heard in what I do, the reason it connects with people is because the fun and the wildness in it is sincere.

I never walk into a room and say, 'Hi! I am Vanessa Williams' daughter.' It helps me to become more authentic.

It's right there on my birth certificate, 'Shelton Hank Williams III.' It's not fake.

Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

I will not pretend to be something that I'm not. I certainly won't do it to win the audience over.

Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader, never pull his punches. Better for him, better for me.

We never wanted to be ironic; we didn't want to wink at the audience.

I never faked my emotions or my desire to be a winner.

Texas is still resistant to Howard Johnsons, interstate highways and some forms of phoniness. It is the place least likely to become a replica of everyplace else. It's authentically awful, comic, and weirdly charming, all at the same time.