Quotes About Sincerity

Being fake will never get you anywhere.

I think it's better to have less friends than to have fake friends.

I know I could probably fake love for a couple of days, but I couldn't fake it for more than three or four days, and neither could you. I don't think any of us can.

Because I hate fake people and I always think I'm never fake.

I don't like fake people.

I hate fake people.

If you're faking it, people will know, and it's going to turn a lot of people off.

If I'm happy, you can tell, and there's no way of faking it.

As an actor, there's no faking it.

It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.

I can't be manic without it feeling false to me.

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

I just want to bring as much natural as I can. I'm not saying that people who take acting lessons are false. They're much better than I am, but it doesn't work for me.

What you haven't seen from me are false attacks.

When you hear my music and you feel the emotion, it's real. When you see me in a film and you see a tear, it's real.

And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene.

Actors can become technically sound, but honesty always translates, even if you are not doing a lot of things on camera.

I hate technically constructed actors. In fact, I hate anything technically constructed, unless it's a bridge.

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.

You shouldn't think about technique when you play. You have to be you. It cannot be about, 'I can play this, and I can show you that.'

I don't pull punches at all, and I write my material for adults. But if kids like it, they can come watch it. I'll never change anything about what I do for anyone. I kind of think that's why kids like me. If you're a teenager, and there's someone onstage talking to you like an adult, that's good.

I think that young people - teenagers, college-age people, anyone under the age of 30 - know when they're being pandered to.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it up.