Quotes about Authenticity

I was always myself and was respectful to anybody I was around in this business.

'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

I think what people respond to is someone being who they actually are.

I think people always respond to real moments.

As I found again and again as a writer, when you're completely honest about something, people respond to that.

I don't like scripts.

Life is very short, and if you worry what people think of you, if you second-guess yourself, you're in trouble.

It's dangerous that we can all paint a completely false picture of ourselves.

The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. The world has enough women who know how to be brilliant. It needs some who will be brave. The world has enough women who are popular. It needs more who are pure. We need women, and men, too, who would rather be morally right than socially correct.

Ignoring our emotions is turning our back on reality. Listening to our emotions ushers us into reality. And reality is where we meet God. . . . Emotions are the language of the soul. They are the cry that gives the heart a voice. . .

When genuine love is released in a relationship, God's presence is manifest.

By failing to let others be themselves before God and move at their own pace, we inevitably project onto them our own discomfort with their choice to live life differently than we do.