Carl Reiner Quotes

For me, the best way to be as an artist is to be completely yourself, letting that vulnerability come through.

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

You write who you are somehow. Even if you try to not to. You can't help but write who you are. I'm just not a very cynical person. I believe in the humanity of people, whether it is just the guys in 'The Full Monty' or Aron Ralston.

Never be ashamed of what or how you feel... just be honest.

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

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

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.

I'm not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I'm going to say how I feel.

I think my very best piece of advice is be yourself.

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.

Just be authentic and be you.

To make music that means something, you kind of have to drop the cool. You have to be prepared and willing to be uncool.

Man, that's all I can do, just be myself.

I've been working on the way my originality, my body, my face, my original form is perceived by me.

My music just stands for being true to who you are.

Don't hide your truth.

I'm not trying to be something that I'm not. I'm just trying to be myself and talk about what I know, and admit what I don't know.

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

Don't front, don't put something out there that you feel isn't realistic and doesn't portray who you are. Just be yourself, be you, and don't be afraid to speak your mind.

I want to be loved despite my faults. It isn't exactly true that I'm a provocateur. A real provocateur is someone who says things he doesn't think, just to shock. I try to say what I think.

I love 'I'm British But...' It's such a sweet, innocent, open-hearted film, and it has the sort of openness that I still aspire to with everything I do. It wears its heart, head, everything on its sleeve.

I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.