Rajneesh Quotes

You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.

Life is too short to play-act if you don't have to.

I want to be true to who I am.

I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose.

The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.

I am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks.

To express yourself as you are, without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, is the most important thing.

I don't like to act in my personal life. I like to be straightforward.

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

Just stay real and stay a real person.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.

I'm not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don't want that. I just want to be true. I want to be... I want to serve music. I want to be honest.

I've never been a popular person, but it doesn't matter. I have everything in my life that I want. I'm not a walking publicity stunt. I'm not an anarchist, or bitter. I'm not trying to be subversive. I just try to remain unguarded, unprotected by fear, and agents and publicists, and I feel comfortable that way.

I live a very real life.

It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.

The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.

And I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I've been in public life is what you see is what you get. And I'm no different when I'm sitting with you than I am when I'm at home or anyplace else.

It's important for me to live my life honestly.

I don't try to be likeable. The worst thing people do is present versions of themselves to the world that aren't real.

I'm not an actor. Lord knows, I'd be acting if I were an actor. What you see is what you get.

I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.

A lot of people have their own idea of how you need to conduct yourself. But I think it's important to be spontaneous and honest, because what's frightening in the process of being correct is that you might lose yourself.

I'm just going to be myself. And when you're bein' yourself, you don't have to back up lies or the stories you told. You don't got to sugarcoat nothin'.

I don't try to be someone I'm not.