Mitzi Gaynor Quotes

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

I'd rather tell you how I really feel.

I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.

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.

I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

I think the best writing is full of honesty and conviction. A lot of people are afraid to reveal much of themselves.

I think what's captivating about me on the microphone is my honesty.

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

I think I have great responsibility, and when I do my music, when I try to relate to my audience, I just try to do it in an honest fashion, you know, just try to be as earnest as possible and sometime it may be self-effacing. Sometimes it may be finger-pointing. Sometimes it may be beautiful, and sometime it may be ugly.

The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.

At school, people would say I should go on 'Britain's Got Talent,' but I would never have done that because it doesn't seem genuine; it doesn't feel natural.

I'm just so comfortable talking about my private life: I just think because I'm not that clever.

I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.

I'm really vulnerable onstage because it's just me. I'm not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.

The art of life is to show your hand.

My career is based off of me talking about my emotions.

I don't get nervous talking about my films, but if I'm the subject, it's hard.

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.

I speak publicly about the things I am speaking privately about, and there is no difference - the things I'm passionate about and dissecting with my friends and family, the things that are valuable to me, are the things that I publicly share and publicly promote.

I think people on Twitter know that I'm real and I speak from the heart most of the time, and sometimes I'm going to make a mistake.

The thing that I've decided is, I don't want to be invisible, but I'd like to be transparent. I want people to see what I'm thinking and see through me.

Whatever you think about me, I was pretty open about how I felt about people.