Quotes About Genuineness

I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife.

I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life.

I think I lead a really real life.

Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.

I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.

The thing always is to go to where people really are and what they're really feeling about life.

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.

I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in.

Sometimes you have to think about what you're going to say, in real life, so when you see that thought process going on in a movie, it feels real and looks real.

I'd like to think I'm actually a nice person in real life.

You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.

I couldn't sacrifice my heart for a publicity stunt.

You should never step outside of your life and look at it like it's this malleable thing you can shape so that people view it a certain way.

I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my case also on screen, you have to be true.

It's easy to be yourself in the dark.

Although I'm sure you're not an impostor.

when someone is honest and vulnerable, they wring my heart - I want to hug them for being real...

Our truest self is often the person we allow no one else to see—who we are when we are alone. In the real world, we edit. We compromise and prevaricate.

At twenty-three, Johnny didn't smile without reason or waste time on people he found insincere.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.

I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable generally, though, I think I am.

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.