Willie Cauley-Stein Quotes

The only thing I want to leave behind in 2019 is anything that's inauthentic, to be real.

We think sometimes we're only drawn to the good, but we're actually drawn to the authentic. We like people who are real more than those who hide their true selves under layers of artificial niceties

I love people who are real.

I live a very real life.

I'm pretty much an open book.

I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and say hello, I want to feel like I'm really meeting that person, not a masked version. I want to give that to people when they meet me. You don't have to like it. I'm not looking for you to like it; I'm looking to be myself.

I personally want to come across as authentic and real. I don't judge anyone.

As for the kind of writer I am? I am who I don't pretend to be.

Authenticity in any format is important, so I try as hard as I can to stay as real as possible.

My father is genuine and frank. I don't have to say that, because everybody knows it.

I've always been this way. What you see is what you get.

You can tell when somebody's authentic about what they're saying.

Anyone who knows me knows I'm an open book.

Harshvardhan Kapoor is very sincere, somebody who wears his heart on his sleeve.

Inside and outside of the ring, what you see is what you get. I'm CM Punk. I'm not trying to be something I'm not. I'm not trying to lie to the people or be fake. I'm not trying to be some crazy, outlandish character.

When I say things, when I speak on television, I'm not making stuff up. I'm not, like, sitting in the back with a notepad thinking, 'Maybe this will make them think I'm crazy'. That's how I really am, you know? My views on this and that, which I really don't want to delve into, but my views are that of the real me. There is no character.

I have always been open about the way I live my life, because hiding skeletons in the closet and presenting a picture-perfect image is not my style.

When I take up a film or role, I don't want to be fake; I don't want to wear a mask. I want to be myself.

I'm trying to be as real as I can and I'm being myself. I'm not gonna create an act.

"Keep it 100" means keeping it 100 percent real. It comes from the expression ... "keeping it real," which means you are being completely honest and 100 percent real means you are really being honest, which is kind of a contradiction of sorts. You're either being honest or you're not.

I can always sniff out when someone is being what they think I want them to be, which is the complete opposite. I really want a queen to be herself.

There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.

At the outset, I think that one should be natural, not just when it comes to writing but in every area of life. If you try to be something that you are not just to impress others, then it's a rather sad life.

I don't have an image that I'm trying to, like, portray. I'm just being me.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.