Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

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 crap at pretending to be something I'm not when I'm in my real life.

I don't have to carry myself as anybody that I'm not, and people picked up on it.

I'm not going to pretend to be anything I'm not.

I think who I am on the court is who I am in person.

I'm as real as they come.

I'm not too good at being fake or being somebody else.

I was neither doing these people nor myself a favor by showing up when my heart wasn't in it. There were not getting the real me, the whole me, the true me.

When I read 'Be real, don't get caught acting,' I thought, 'How the hell do you do that?'.

I can always sniff out when someone is being what they think I want them to be, which is the complete opposite. I really want a queen to be herself.

You seem to be going in for sincerity today. It isn't becoming to you, really — except as an obvious pose. Be as artificial as you are, I advise. There's a sort of sincerity in that, you know. And, after all, you must confess you like that better.

I'm not one of those people who has an act.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are.

There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.

I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am.

Most style is not honest enough.

You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.

Acting to me is real life - I don't act.

I am not good at first or second impressions, and you have to spend some time with me to know me. Also, I don't want to put my best foot forward and prove something, as that is not me. I would rather be me and have you like me for who I am, instead of being someone else.

I didn't come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it's sickening.

I just like talking, and I'm really truthful. Sometimes things come out of my mouth, and I think, 'Maybe I shouldn't have said that,' but at the end of the day, I am who I am! When I'm not acting, I'm going to be fully Hayley Hasselhoff, and that's what you're going to get. And I enjoy that.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.