Paul McCartney Quotes

I've never been that person to fake it, and say what everyone else wants you to say. Then you never have anything personal. If I wanted to be an actress all the time, I could do that. But I don't. I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be honest. Without honesty, there's nothing.

I will not pretend to be something that I'm not. I certainly won't do it to win the audience over.

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.

A man can be honest in any sort of skin.

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 really just try to focus every day on delivering the most honest portrayal I can and let everything else take care of itself.

You're authentic when you're honest.

But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.

That soul that can Be honest is the only perfect man.

Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.

The thing that I really want to try and do is just live my life really openly and honestly. I think there's so much power in that, as simple as it is.

If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better; for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to?

Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem.

I think it's important to just be a good, honest person and be true to who you are.

Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.

I haven't been trying to be anything other than myself.

The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves.

I didn't try to be something I wasn't.

I try to be genuine. I try to be real. It's such a subjective thing, but I try to convey an emotion.

I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be honest. Without honesty, there's nothing.

Above all, in order to gain respect, you need to be true to yourself. There is no point in trying to be brutal if it's not in your nature; there is no point in trying to be suave and sophisticated if it doesn't come naturally.

You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.

I'm trying to be as real as I can and I'm being myself. I'm not gonna create an act.

I'm as real as they come.

I don't want to try to fool people into thinking that I'm something that I'm not.