Inauthentic Behavior Quotes

Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.

Some people say the things I do are annoying because I'm intentionally trying too hard to be relatable, but I'm really not.

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

It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.

While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses.

It was the Democratic Party, it was the Presidential election. We elected a president [Barack Obama]; we didn't elect a king. So all the speculation in the next three months - people camped out at his house, and wondering who's coming to visit, who's going to be the Secretary of State - that all struck me as inane and stupid.

It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.

People sometimes turn out to be almost the opposite of how they present. It isn't because they're trying to fool you or because they're hypocrites. It's because they badly want to be that thing, and so they'll try to be it.

I'm not trying to be this cool girl. If you're trying to be something you're not, it's slowly going to bite you in the butt.

You are not going to change me and if you do, it will look like a fraud, it will be a fraud.

People striving for approval from others become phony.

I remember when I was a teenager thinking my girlfriend was cheating on me, and going around riling myself up. Pretending to cry. It was totally illegitimate-I actually didn't feel anything. I went to some pub and then went crying all the way home. And I got into my dog's bed. I was crying and holding on to the dog. I woke up in the morning, and the dog was looking at me like, 'You're a fake.'

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.

He smiles but rarely and watches other men to see when they laugh and then does the same.

It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

I think he tries to be nice. But he has absolutely zero self-awareness. None. Zip. So we see the public Donald Trump, the candidate, as being different than the in-person Donald Trump.