Lara Dutta Quotes

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself

Whatever your walk of life is, I think you have to be real about it.

You've got to demand the truth from yourself.

One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

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

I try to be honest with myself.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

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.

I think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yourself.

My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.

We all come to the point where it's time to get yourself straight, as a businesswoman, a mother, whatever you are in life. It's tough love but it's also being real with yourself. It's important to take those rose-coloured glasses off and see what's going on.

I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card.

I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

I come out of real life.

I'm not lying to myself like most people.

One of the commitments I made to myself when I decided to write a book was to be brutally honest, particularly about myself.

The more horrible the truth that you admit, the better you connect. You have to tell the truth.

People like my honesty. When I'm sane, I'm very much myself.

You get to a point where you get tired of being stupid and selfish and not being honest with yourself.

I'm just, like, really about not lying to myself.

I don't think you should write a book until you tell the absolute truth. You can't do that until you're 85, and I don't want to live that long. I've always prided myself on knowing when to get off, and I hope it works out that way.

It's really important to be honest to yourself.