Quotes About Genuineness

I may be goofy, I may be corny, and I may be cheesy, but I'm me.

I can't be funny, goofy, happy go lucky all the time.

I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues.

Everything you do gotta come from your heart.

I'm not trying to get in good graces of anybody. I just want to be myself and be the guy that helps out in the community, because that's who I am.

If a guy is just genuine and honest, girls gravitate towards that, and girls love it when you open up.

I think musicians naturally gravitate toward music that sounds real.

I'm so down to earth, I'm bringing gravity back.

A great thing about kids is they're just themselves and can't help it a lot of the times.

The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.

I'm not cutting my hair because I'm not going to be fake.

I've seen stuff that says be nice and I think: you're not showing me anything. You're telling me, like a Hallmark card: be nice, nice to be nice, innit?

Going to church no more making you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car.

The most important thing is to be true to yourself, however you feel, and not try to feel or behave differently because you think you should, or someone has told you how you must feel. But do think about it. Unexamined feelings lead to all kinds of trouble.

Don't just pretend to love others. Really love them. —Romans 12:9

If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it. . . . Just be real, and it will be funnier.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

She was not coldly clever and indirectly satirical, but adorably simple and full of feeling.

If there is honesty in your face, the battle is won. It doesn't have to be the most beautiful face in the world. The audience can relate to you then. They feel love, not lust, for you.

I guess people wonder if I'm the same on camera as I am off, and I'm pretty much the same, I really am. But that's always asked of me.

I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.

Most people are always wondering what to say. With me, life is an open book.