Cherrelle Quotes

You have to be honest about who you are.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won't let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, 'Here I am. This is me.' I feel there's something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

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.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.

I'm just, like, really about not lying to myself.

I find that I don't lie about the big things in life. The things that matter. And about me. While I'm talking about myself, I rarely lie: I know who I am, my level of talent, that I'm not the most versatile filmmaker, the person I am. I don't lie about myself because I don't lie to myself.

I can deal with imperfection, but I can't deal with people who lie to themselves and lie to the world to make the world feel better.

If I pretended to be confident all the time, that would just be a lie.

I guess the very first thing is to own your true self, and that includes achieving the point of not lying to others; the first step should be not lying to yourself.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

The key is to be honest. Be honest, but don't play yourself.

You can't lie to your soul.

Above all, do not lie to yourself.

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.

I think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yourself.

I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.

I'm not on the stage going, 'Look at me! I'm amazing!' I accept my vulnerability, don't pretend I'm something I'm not. I don't want to come across as fake.

I don't want to pretend to be a prophet or a saint. I'm very conscious of my limitations. I know my flaws. But I don't like lying.

I'm someone, the same as my girlfriends, when they say what do you think about this, I don't always say they look fabulous. I say what I think.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.