Quotes About Sincerity

I don't like movies, TV shows, or books or anything that's preaching to the audience or speaking down to us.

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

Authenticity is absolutely the key to a great tweet.

Somebody with a billion followers can tweet, 'See my movie,' and it can still tank. Followers don't always translate into success because I think people are too savvy. When something takes off, it's because people are connecting to it - not because someone with a lot of followers says to care about it.

I'm naturally shy, so the social media thing is new to me. I haven't really figured out how my voice sounds on social media, you know? I don't want to tweet everyday just for the sake of tweeting. I want to make sure whatever I do there is honest. Social media can very quickly get fake, and I don't want to be that guy.

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes.

People do not want what we have in our pockets half as much as they want what is in our hearts. If we combine both, intelligently, however, according to our means, we give wisely and well.

I was trying to find my way into the music business still, but I didn't want to portray something that I wasn't. I really wanted to be just me.

It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.

I like whomever to come to my shows. I want people who want to see me to come see me. I don't want to force people. I don't want it to feel like a job!

I have always said I will try to answer questions honestly. I don't want to change that about myself. I think people appreciate that about me.

I can always sniff out when someone is being what they think I want them to be, which is the complete opposite. I really want a queen to be herself.

It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music or making stories. It's the strangest thing.

Paris Hilton said something interesting to me once: she said, 'I just tell everyone what they want to hear, and I do what I want to do.'

Speaking as a writer, I'm not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to the inner world of the story as I can make them.

Everything will come right if you are pure and sincere. We want hundreds like you bursting upon society and bringing new life and vigor of the spirit wherever they go.

I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.

He caught me to him and cupped my cheek in one hand. "I want to keep feeling the way I feel when I'm with you. Just tell me what I have to do.

I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.

I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.

Being honest doesn't mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.

I don't mind being artificial sometimes, because I like veiling myself. I mean, I'm not honest or sincere: I am self-centered and narcissistic. I just want to be this entity.

I'm not playing a comedy. I want to be playing the truth of the moment, and then have the comedy come out.