Quotes About Genuineness

I don't think I am that person who can just text people for the heck of work. I should be invested in that person otherwise I won't.

I felt like it was the space that I could be the most authentic of anywhere because of how I grew up. Even though some of the songs and some of the texture wasn't what I like, I felt like country music was more authentic, in general, than anywhere else.

Honesty is the best policy, I think - there's no point trying to be fake, and that's one thing I never have been.

I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.

When I meet somebody in the street who knows about 'Humans of New York,' a lot of times they might have a scripted answer, and that scripted answer is the first thing to come out of their mouth.

The first thing that comes to your head is probably the only thing you should say. If you have to sit down and spend ten minutes trying to have something genuine, it may not be all that genuine.

I think the most important thing is to be yourself and be genuine and don't try to tell anybody else's story but your own. And if it comes from a genuine place, I think people can tell, and if it doesn't, I think people can tell, and I think that eventually it shows.

The one thing I have always tried to get across is what you see is what you get. This is me, like it or lump it.

Most of my roles have had streaks of a real girl from the real world.

I'm interested in the real world.

Choose what you actually want to do rather than what you think will impress people on Facebook. Ironically, when you do this, something amazing happens; what you produce stands a better chance of getting recognition. Not just on Facebook, but in the real world.

Where other people live in an artificial world, I feel I live in the real world. And nothing beats reality.

The secret of success is sincerity.

I tend to relate more to people on television who are just themselves, for good or for bad, than I do to someone who I believe is putting on some sort of persona. The anchorman on 'The Simpsons' is a reasonable facsimile of some anchors who have that problem.

If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity. —Coco Chanel

No man can, for any considerable time, wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which is the true one. —Nathaniel Hawthorne

You forgot how to be awesome because you were too busy being cool

It is about time that we discard all bunkum--

You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.

the only thing of any use is the truth.

Simply by being your absolute, most genuine self in every interaction of every hour, you provide a great and rare service on this earth.

It's kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know.

The best disguise is to be yourself.