Quotes About Realness

I like real people. I don't like fakes.

My parents were real people. They didn't put on airs or false faces. They were what they were.

When you see who I am, you're getting a real character, a real person. R-Truth, that's me.

I want people to see that I'm a real person, I overreact, I cry, I'm emotional. If I come across as perfect and in control, that wouldn't be who I really am.

Just stay real and stay a real person.

I'm just a real person and I tell it like it is. I don't have a lot of secrets, which has been a fault of mine.

I do what I do to inspire people. They can't be inspired by an ego, a big-headed person. It doesn't work. It doesn't match. And I really want to be that role model for people, for children. I want to be real. To my fans, I want them to view me as a real person. Don't put me on a pedestal. I'm human. I make mistakes, I cry, I hurt - just like you.

I'm am really a real person.

At the end of the day, if you're going to buy a can of Coke, you want the real thing.

Bob Dylan's not a hype and a haircut: he's the real thing.

It's really important for women in the public eye to be open - these pop stars who don't look, behave, speak like real women - that's not fair on women. Being real, honest, authentic - too many women in the public eye are afraid to be authentic because they are afraid they will be judged.

I've always wanted to do pieces that have an integral sense of realism and aren't just there for titillation.

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

I think people believe that I give an aura of someone who has both feet on the ground.

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

You can film me 24 hours a day and you'll get a very accurate picture of who I am. You see the funny side, I work hard, and I try to be honest and just call it how it is.

Don't attitudenize.

Be yourself. Authenticity trumps cool every time.

It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.

O]nce you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. - The Skin Horse from The Velveteen Rabbit

He said, You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. -The Velveteen Rabbit

genuinely is

Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise

Truly, the most we can ask of others is for their guidance and comfort on the way—without imposition, design, or thought of reward. This is the hospitality of relationship: for family to help us manifest who we are in the world, for friends to bring us to thresholds of realness, for loved ones to encourage us to cross barriers of our own making into moments of full aliveness.