Jonathan Keltz Quotes

Love is being honest with yourself at all times being honest with the other person at all times telling, listening, respecting the truth and never pretending Love is the source of reality

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

I think the best acting is when you allow yourself to be kind of vulnerable in the moment.

I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me.

I miss improv. I hate it in a way - watching it, doing it - but only because it's so challenging and nerve wracking. Improv is the only belief system I've ever experienced that directly works on how to be. Just how to be.

What a world we live in. I want to be incredibly close to the heart of it all. To live honestly, truthfully and to be completely present is the ultimate enterprise.

I keep in touch with what's real.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm the opposite; I'd rather have people make me cry with the truth than try to make me smile.

I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

The art of life is to show your hand.

To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

It is always easier to write from the heart and deal with things in the present.

I wanted to say things that were natural coming from me.

In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.

I'm not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I'm going to say how I feel.

Anytime I hear songs that are so honest, whether they make the person who's singing it look good or not, there's a level of honesty that resonates with people.

I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn't work.

You really have to listen and be vulnerable and open to the other actors and the environment.

On stage, you have nothing to hide behind. It allows the work to live in a more organic place. It's almost like a meditation. You have to go on that stage and be as present as possible.

From a place of truth, I think artists or actors have to be real with what they're doing.

All I know is real life. I don't know how to act. I don't know how to pretend.