Quotes About Sincerity

I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.

Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

The more comfortable you are, and the more you can relax, the more truthful your performance is.

Day to day and doing the work and getting to that honest point - that, for me, is always about - and always will be as long as I do this - refining and refining and refining and refining the truth... constantly being as truthful and honest and raw and real as you can be.

When you live a truthful life, you can smile without anything behind it; uninhibited joy knowing that you are doing your best to be the best person you can be.

Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.

My biggest thing is telling a truthful story, something that is rooted in something and is very honest. If I read a script and you want me to take off my top, and it doesn't serve a purpose, then I'm not going to do it.

There is a sense in which we have - like, I go in to teach a class; I may be somewhat different than I would be talking to you, although it's related because it's public. I'm very different with my roommate or my lover or my cats. But I don't know if that means you're acting, really, if you're being truthful.

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

It's so much easier to be truthful. Maybe I'm just too lazy to lie.

I can be glib and truthful all at once.

The way to my heart is by being truthful and spontaneous.

Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.

I try and be truthful.

I always look for reality. I look for plain truthful roles.

I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.

I'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.

Being truthful is a necessity because when I'm not being truthful it takes a toll on me. I don't have any room for it in my life. I don't have an across-the-board opinion on honesty in relationships. But for me, personally, it's paramount.

I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.

You just make yourself available to be full of love. And to be truthful and honest, 100 percent.

I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.

It's really important that my lyrics are truthful.

When you raise your voice in song to express what's going on deep inside of you, I think people just react to that because it's so truthful. It's so raw.