Authenticity Quotes

"Do your thing and don't care if they like it" "Everyone wants to be liked by everyone, but eventually, you have to realize that you won't be" "Some people say never let them see you cry. I say if you're so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone" "My hope for the future of Hollywood is that we get to be ourselves and tell accurate stories about who we are." "I am who I am. I can't pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year." "Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them." "The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie" "When you know who you are and what you stand for, you naturally gravitate toward people who share your values" "I don't expect anyone to understand why I am the way I am, because I'm not trying to please anybody but myself" "Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life" "I'm not trying to be the young ingenue that can't make mistakes or the bad girl that tells it like it is." "The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time" "The more sincere I could be, the better it would be for the film" "I've learned that you have to stay true to yourself." "I'm inspired by people who are unapologetically themselves" "I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate yourself and have others believe it." "True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision" "I embrace the messiness of life" "When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy" "Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different."