Quotes about Authenticity

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

There's only one rule in stand-up, which is that you have to be funny. Yet 99 per cent of comics look and talk exactly the same.

You're not supposed to look perfect while you're making babies. Making babies is the perfection. It's about feeling good in clothes and knowing you can get dressed up in the evening, work it for a minute, and maybe get back in a certain pair of jeans. But there's just no such thing as perfection.

We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter the real Christ.

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

Because we are more adult than actually mature, we tend to take our sins and baptize them, dressing them up as spiritual maturity.

More visibility is more power, but more vulnerability.

When I started to write 'Hannah's Child,' I realized that this had to be a book of passion, to have a certain kind of vulnerability. I think that people respond to that.

Some people are attracted to vulnerability. From my very first album, I've been vulnerable. I've always given parts of me, parts of my life - good, bad, ugly. I've never put up this image as a super-thug. Also, some people just like the music.

The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.