Jurnee Smollett Quotes

In reality most people aren't as perfect as they want to seem.

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

You can't really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it.

The only people who make love all the time are liars.

In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.

I'm very open and honest, and I feel like it's important for women to hear that we're not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would've been better off if I'd left myself alone.

Nobody's perfect, and to try to pretend you're perfect is an exhausting fool's errand.

If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?

I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.

Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.

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

I don't mind if I show myself being cheap or unreasonable sometimes.

I'm so not perfect.

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.

With the birth of my first child and my involvement with my first husband, I basically stopped lying. I just didn't want to lie anymore, because it reduces the stature of the person you're lying to.

I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.

Once you lose the honesty in a relationship, I mean, I think you don't have a relationship at all.

People are always afraid of the truth.

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

We are all unappealing. It is just a matter of how much we let people see it.

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

We all try to pretend we're the person we want to be when we're really not, and you've just gotta be willing to say, 'Here are all my flaws; here's who I am - take it or leave it. If you love me still, then let's do this.'

I was trying to maintain a facade of infallibility, which is exhausting. Like, I used to wear tons of makeup because I had bad skin. I couldn't go out in public without makeup on.