Authentic Quotes

You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.

I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.

Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible.

Just be your authentic self because there's nothing sexier or more beautiful than that.

Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans.

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.

The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.

Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.