Quotes about Genuineness

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. —André Gide; French author, Nobel Prize winner

They do live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface change, and frivolous external things.

Do not try to seem wise to others. If you want to live a wise life, live it on your own terms and in your own eyes.

And who can give to another the things which he has not himself?

Jesus didn't die for us so we could pretend to be something we're not.

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.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even — if you will — eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned impostor couldn't be happy with. Something, in other words, that can't be shared, like your own skin — not even by a minority.

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

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints