Quotes About Realness

I don't try to be something I'm not, I don't try to pretend that I'm something I'm not, I don't try to present myself as something I'm not.

What I love about Nivea is they're all about authenticity. The brand isn't pretending to be anything it isn't.

I never want to be pretentious.

I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.

I never wear hair and makeup in my day-to-day, I usually look crazy.

If I'm not authentic, I might as well as be dead.

I don't have a lot of time for things that are deliberately, achingly cool.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

wearing straight clothes but still in costume—as Rodgers summed it up, "His seemingly casual appearance was actually the flowering of his next drag: He was delving into the eighties metrosexual world of high fashion, a precursor to what's called 'Executive Realness' in vogueing competions.

might damn them both for treachery and lechery, but I was so far removed from the realness of it that I was more struck by the fortuitous rhyme of those two sins than by the awesome enormity of the crime.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be—because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose and then where are you? —Fanny Brice (1891–1951), singer and comedian

In life, what more can you ask for than to be real?

The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities.

In this complex world, the best way to survive is to be genuine.

I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.

There's all kinds of love in the world, and not all of it looks like the stuff in greeting cards.

Hard... What does he mean by hard? And am I like that? Or is it only that I have no time for the fraud of so-called good manners, which strews a little glitter over black truths, and thinks that that has made them disappear.

I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.

I'm not going to be the artist that talks about a million dollar whip and 'I just bought some red bottoms.' That's cool, but that's not all there is to it. I'd rather talk about something everyone can relate to and feel.

I take a lot of pride in being able to say that what you see is what you get.

Our generation, I think, has a demand for authenticity that exceeds any prior generation.

I want all that dirt and grime and life-sauce. A lot of my favorite old soul records have it, but you don't hear it on country records anymore.

I can't put on a facade every time I go out.

There's nothing fake about me. And I think there are some people that appreciate that. Even if they hate me, they appreciate the fact that I'm 100 percent authentically me.