Pegi Young Quotes

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.

I feel strongly that I need to try to make my shows as real as possible. What you see is what you get.

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

I just think the more you're in front of camera, the better: my main aim is just to tell the truth, be natural, and believe in what I'm doing, and hopefully that comes across as a rawness.

Especially with Instagram, I feel reluctant to make all the photos beautiful because I don't necessarily want to send this message that life is perfect and your avocado toast is always going to be beautifully lit. I want readers to feel like the Man Repeller page is real and kind of dirty. Messy.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.

Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm the opposite; I'd rather have people make me cry with the truth than try to make me smile.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Everybody can relate to being real or true. Somehow, someway, you want to be real and true.

All of my music is honest.

The one thing I've always tried to do in my life, in my work, on TV, is I just keep it real. I find it hard and time-consuming to try to be fake.

I try to just be as real and open as possible.

I'm not ashamed to speak about anything. And what I'm telling you is real; it's from the heart.

It's just about being honest. I listen to a lot of stuff that's out there, some of which I wrote, and I'm like, 'Where is that? Where's the honesty?' So that's what I want to get to in my music now.

It's just so humanizing to see someone be real.

If you're going to do reality, you need to do the good and the bad. I think that's why so many people love Nicole and me. We're real and honest.

I'm committed to an honest expression, not necessarily a performance.

Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!

Love is being honest with yourself at all times being honest with the other person at all times telling, listening, respecting the truth and never pretending Love is the source of reality

I find I don't need to be polished. I feel that you have to keep it real, and that's the best way to go.

Women want to see the truth. They don't want to see some perfect girl.

Music to me is about being honest, and it's what I've always pictured music as. I don't see the point of expressing yourself if you are going to be cryptic about it.

I'm see-through. And I'm the worst liar of all time.

I believe in the importance of sincerity and emotion and honesty in TV, even when it's goofy comedy.