Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you can and as true to yourself as possible. You have to be honest and fair and vulnerable and foolish and brave, and not care what anyone thinks of it.

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

The best way to impress a woman is to be the most honest you can.

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

I'd rather tell you how I really feel.

It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be.

I don't believe that saying things because you feel they are what people want to hear is the right way to be in any part of your life.

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

Expressing truth is hard work.

If you have what you want to say inside, and if you are crying for something that is true inside, it doesn't matter. The camera always sees it.

When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.

When you lay your life out there, you want it to be as true as possible.

If I was going to pretend to be the supermom next door, it would've been counterfeit and a lie. I figured I had to write something out of a new place.

All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.

I think the most important thing is to be yourself and be genuine and don't try to tell anybody else's story but your own. And if it comes from a genuine place, I think people can tell, and if it doesn't, I think people can tell, and I think that eventually it shows.

I feel as though there are things that I'm trying to do - you know, capturing truthfully some aspect of human experience - and I'm trying really hard not to be fake. And in writing, as in life, it's harder than you think.

I love being gut-wrenchingly honest.

Be it 120 frames or 24 frames or film or theatre, you're trying to be a fully formed human being and trying to be honest.

I feel that if I'm writing a book, it has to be an honest book: it has to say what I believe to be the truth, so that's kind of warts and all.

From a place of truth, I think artists or actors have to be real with what they're doing.

I have always said what is in my heart.

It's just about being honest. I listen to a lot of stuff that's out there, some of which I wrote, and I'm like, 'Where is that? Where's the honesty?' So that's what I want to get to in my music now.