Bradley Cooper Quotes

Be as honest with yourself as possible, and try to make friends with people who like you for you - not an iteration of who you are, or who you think you should be - but really like you for you. And when you're creating whatever you want to do in your life, just try to create and put out the truest version of yourself into the world.

I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and say hello, I want to feel like I'm really meeting that person, not a masked version. I want to give that to people when they meet me. You don't have to like it. I'm not looking for you to like it; I'm looking to be myself.

I've just decided that I have to continue to live my life and do what I do. Hopefully, people love me because of who I am, not who I pretend to be.

Sincerity seems to be a problem today. I'd rather be true and hated than be false and fool people.

When I read 'Be real, don't get caught acting,' I thought, 'How the hell do you do that?'.

We like other people to show themselves to us as they really are.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be.

When you meet women, don't pretend to be anything that you're not.

That’s what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is....Most people love you for who you pretend to be....To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretense...It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act...

It is better to be disliked for being who you are than to be loved for who you are not.

The best thing you can do to set yourself apart is just be yourself. If you're fake, you know people find out who you are later, it's like, 'Well that's not who we thought you were.' Being yourself is where you feel most comfortable and people get, you know, they feel that connection the best. That's the best way to go. You always have to be yourself.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.

I'll never try to put on a fake image. I'm just Zac.

It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I don't try to be likeable. The worst thing people do is present versions of themselves to the world that aren't real.

I don't want to try to sell myself or portray something that I'm not.

I can't be someone that I'm not. And people can spot when someone's being fake, when somebody's not being real, when somebody's sugar-coating stuff. People don't like that.

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

You just can't be someone else all the time; you just have to be you sometimes.

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

I try not to lie to people - the only way to control the way you're perceived is to tell the truth.

The most effective strategy for successful living is really no strategy at all. It is, rather, to be real, to be honest, to be authentic, to be you.