Authentic Quotes

What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and more authentic as we worked in it, and they added bits to it.

An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.

I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.

Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.

The authentic self is the soul made visible.

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

I'm interested in authentic experience and the essence of that creative place, and where those myths begin and where they become real on any level.

Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.

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.

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

But since you're asking me, I'll tell you my opinion: all cornbread is authentic, as long as it's good, hot, and made with love and fresh ingredients.

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.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

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.

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

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.

I want you to answer this question: Why should you settle for anything less than an authentic conservative who will fight for your views and values without an apology? Think about that.

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.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

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

In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.