Sebastian Horsley Quotes

Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

As soon as you start claiming you can be someone that you are not, you are crazy.

I am myself a fabulous fake.

Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.

I have serious, serious problems with personas - with unauthentic individuals.

It was then that I realized that while playing the well-meaning tolerant individual (in short: liberal) garnered you fans and grades, it didn't matter. In my heart and head, I was a fraud.

Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.

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

Seriously, I've just realized that almost everyone is a fraud, so I try not to feel too bad about it.

I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

I didn't realize that pretending to be this 'Hills Heidi,' this spoiled rich girl who I wasn't, would almost destroy me.

Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.

I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else-that would be fatal.

I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.

I was living a life of a lie, I really was.

Don't change being you, because it's hard work being something that you're not.

When you're pretending to be something you're not, at least for me, you end up falling on your face.

There is your persona and then there's the real you. I was living inside my persona too much.

A lot of players act one way with teammates, one way with reporters, another way for fans, another for their friends. I'm just me all the time. I'm normal. Everyone else in the NFL is weird.

It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.

Be sure that whatever you are is you.

The minute you try to do something that is not true to you, is not something that you really know about, and is not a lifestyle or world that you live in or can relate to, it's going to come off as false.

...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.