Authenticity quotes

“Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.”
Sir Sidney Poitier

“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to make yourself feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
Michael Stuhlbarg - Mr. Perlman

“I find more of an authenticity in people who are a little strange.”
Missi Pyle

“The best advice I've ever got is to be yourself. Stay true to who you are and what you stand for and you'll go far in life.”
Snoop Dogg

“- Mary Austin: What's it like, singing for all those people?
- Freddie Mercury: When I know they're listening, when I know I really have them, I couldn't sing off-key if I tried. I am exactly the person I was always meant to be. I'm not afraid of anything... The only other time I ever feel that way is when I'm with you.”
Lucy Boynton - Mary Austin
Rami Malek - Freddie Mercury

“Everyone has a part of themselves they hide. Even from the people they love most.”
Sally Field - Aunt May

“On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.”
Anthony Quinn

“Be yourself -- it's the one thing you can do better than anyone else.”
Ethel Merman

“- Kevin: Who is you, Chiron?
- Black: I'm me man. I ain't trying to be nothing else.”
André Holland - Kevin
Trevante Rhodes - Black

“Fearlessly be yourself.”
Anthony Rapp

“When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. ”
Bradley Whitford

“Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.”
Queen Latifah

“Homes are for free expression, not for good impression.”
Rene Russo - Helen North

Boy, just be yourself. If people don't like you for being yourself... Fuck 'em! Let me tell you something. I scored with a girl when I was about your age. I try to please her poppa all the time; wen' out my way to please her poppa. I came in one day, I said, "Nice weather we having". He said, "You can't say that. You can't say that; it might... (continue)(continue reading)
Bernie Mac - Uncle Vester

“Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.”
Jeff Bridges

“I drink therefore I am.”
W.C. Fields

“I don't know what it is I exude. But whatever it is, it's whatever I am!”
Janet Leigh

“Even though this crazy wrestling world is a fictionalized world, the fans know 1,000% if you're not being real. All right? That guy just now, that was The Rock. The Rock is me. Dwayne Johnson. Just with the volume turned way up, the treble adjusted, the bass. Same guy.”
The Rock - Himself

“Be who you want to be. Be proud. And if you find someone worth holding on to, never, ever, let them go. Follow your own path, wherever that takes you.”
Andy Bean - Stanley Uris

“- Patricia Terrill: Don't you care what people think of you?
- James McKay: I'm not responsible for what people think, Pat, only for what I am.”

Carroll Baker - Patricia Terrill
Gregory Peck - James McKay

“I hope you know that you made today a very special day by just your being you. There's no one in the whole world like you, and I like you just the way you are.”
Tom Hanks - Fred Rogers

“My job is to express myself.”
Taika Waititi

“A man has to be what he is, Joey. Can't break the mould. I tried it and it didn't work for me.”
Alan Ladd - Shane

“- Hal: Your father is a madman.
- Catherine: He may be mad, but he is true. His madness makes him true. He says only what he believes. That is why he is loved.”
Timothée Chalamet - Hal
Lily-Rose Depp - Catherine

“Have you seen what it's like out there, Murray? Do you ever actually leave the studio? Everybody just yells and screams at each other. Nobody's civil anymore. Nobody thinks what it's like to be the other guy. You think men like Thomas Wayne ever think what it's like to be someone like me? To be somebody but themselves? They don't. They think...” (continue)(continue reading)
Joaquin Phoenix - Arthur Fleck