Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I try to live my life as honestly as I can, and the last thing I want is to pretend to be something I'm not. To pretend to myself I am a sex symbol would somehow be dishonest. I'd feel, in my heart, that I were behaving artificially and that's the last thing I want to do.

I don't know, I think people who meet me just get pretty much what I am.

Let your face speak what's in your heart.

I don't like to act in my personal life. I like to be straightforward.

Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide.

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

Be as you wish to seem.

People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.

Being truthful is a necessity because when I'm not being truthful it takes a toll on me. I don't have any room for it in my life. I don't have an across-the-board opinion on honesty in relationships. But for me, personally, it's paramount.

I'd be a liar if I said I didn't care what people think, but I would rather have less people who like or approve of me for who I really am than a bunch more people who like or approve me for what I'm not.

I'm a very what-you-see-is-what-you-get kind of person, and my family always laughs at me. They're like, 'You have minus-zero poker-face skills. We just have to look at your face and we know what's wrong with you.'

Emotional sounds don't lie.

I guess I happen to have one of those faces that just says everything I'm thinking. I guess it's a gift, but I see it as a potential liability. It keeps me honest.

I don't want to give a false impression of confidence where I don't have it.

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.

I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose.

I've always been transparent in who I am as a person.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

Be what thou wouldst seeme to be.

I trow that countenance cannot lie,Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.

What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.

Faces can lie. Backsides can't.