Charlyne Yi Quotes

I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can.

Expressing truth is hard work.

I think for me the trick is not to aim to impress or to even try to make people laugh but instead to tell the truth.

I think you need to have the guts to not use comedy. Often, the people that work in comedy use a joke to avoid contemplation.

Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.

I like to think that with me, what you see is what you get, and you can like or dislike it, it's up to you, but it's straight. That's something that I pride myself on.

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

Let your words be the genuine picture of your heart.

The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere.

In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

There is no merit in being truthful when one is truthful by nature, or rather when one can be nothing else; it is a gift, like poetry or music. But it needs courage to be truthful after carefully considering the matter, unless a kind of pride is involved; for example, the man who says to himself, "I am ugly," and then says, "I am ugly" to his friends, lest they should think themselves the first to make the discovery.

What I think I know about dating is that you can't take back something you say in a date. You can't lie, and you can't pretend to be someone you're not unless it's not going well and you never see them again. It never works if you try to make yourself seem like someone you're not, and you want to keep dating them. Be yourself. Don't embellish. It will always come back to get you.

I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.

The truth is the most important part of being impeccable with your word...Only the truth will set us free.

The truth is ever best.

Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

Let us, then, be what we are; speak what we think; and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth.

When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you that is lacking in foibles and weaknesses and egotism and vanities and so on. You're just trying to really say something as truthful as you can out of the best that you have in you.

What I like about stand-up is, it's truthful. I'm not up there trying to get laid or look cool. I'm up there because I really love it, and it makes people happier.

Just relax and really say what you're actually thinking, and not what you think people want to hear.

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

Sincerity seems to be a problem today. I'd rather be true and hated than be false and fool people.