Quotes About Sincerity

Even in comedy, you have to be real. It's all about being real. It's how real can you be? That's the challenge. How much are you willing to take on for your character?

To me, being real is being yourself. You know, that's whether you're a pop artist or whatever.

Being yourself is the most important element for me, because, if you're trying to be something you're not, the audience will pick up on that.

If you're not being yourself, it shows immediately. The camera doesn't lie.

As an actor, I like my films to be believable.

Everything is pre-taped these days, but I'm a believer in, 'If you can't do it live, don't do it.'

If the actor believes in the moment, the audience believes in it, too.

That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.

One of the things I learned early on was the system of believing: you have to believe in what you say. The camera is the arbiter of truth; it's the all-seeing eye that can pick out discrepancies. You can't lie to the camera. You must believe in what you're saying, or the audience won't believe you.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, an obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from The inhospitable board. the hospitality was a cold as the ices.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, an obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from The inhospitable board.

Say excuse me but, really, I am actually very much in love with you.

This place is packed with beautiful hipsters. While the Coney Island bombast radiated sincerity, everything here seems more ironic. When someone in the crowd ironically chants, 'USA!' someone else ironically chants back, 'Mother Russia.

Here's something you must know and don't forget it - animals never lie. They don't like, they don't put on disguises, and they are always true to what they are. That's why you can trust them.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain

Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions

Part of why kids like this scared me was that they seemed authentic.

Noriu tikr? dalyk? arba nenoriu nieko.

She wore an expression of love so naked it seemed to Pip almost obscene.

I hate the concept of likeability—it gave us two terms of George Bush, whom a plurality of voters wanted to have a beer with, and Facebook. You'd unfriend a lot of people if you knew them as intimately and unsparingly as a good novel would. But not the ones you actually love.

Happy people didn't tell lies.

I'm always serious. That's the tragedy of my life.

Her fiercest sincerities were translated by the male ego, on arrival, into daffy flirtation. (p. 24)

Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.