Authentic

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.

- Alan Alda Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I think the letter is genuine. We can't verify it because we don't know where he is, he is on the run. I have seen his signature before and it looks like it. I think it is authentic.

- Abdel Atwan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In the particular moment that Italy has been living through in these months, may the risen Lord bring serenity to the national community and strengthen in all those who work to serve it the strong desire to pursue aims of harmony and authentic development for the good of all.

- Pope XVI Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.

- Laura Innes Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

This play is a searing inside account of what white racism does to its victims, ... and it floats on the same authentic artistry as the blues music it celebrates.

- Frank Rich Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

But since you're asking me, I'll tell you my opinion all cornbread is authentic, as long as it's good, hot, and made with love and fresh ingredients.

- Jeremy Jackson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If we're going to go throwback, I wanted something that really had an authentic look and feel to it.

- Dennis Felton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior.

- Antonin Artaud Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Perhaps the most central characteristic of authentic leadership is the relinquishing of the impulse to dominate others.

- David Cooper Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Involving consumers in the creative process goes against the grain of the agency mindset as brand stewards, but the payoff can be more authentic messages. The general agency perspective is, 'This is our work, this is what we do,' ... We knew we'd be fundamentally changing the model. We knew we couldn't impose our creative stamp on everything.

- John Butler Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

- Jerry Garcia Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In cases where you're trying to do more complex, sophisticated tasks in middle school, that's not as easily translatable into a multiple-choice test, ... If we used more authentic assessments, we might find they're not doing just as well but maybe better.

- Alan Young Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The successful, longtime partnerships almost always enjoy a true friendship, or at the very least an authentic regard for one another. In recent years, one thinks in particular of Love and Couples or Jos Maria Olazbal and Seve Ballesteros. We can laugh at each other, ... In the World Cup I remember him whiffing a shot in a palmetto bush, and Joe LaCava and I were just laughing, and I would never do that to anyone else. I wasn't laughing because he whiffed it. It was just funny.

- Fred Couples Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In the belief that this purveyor of authentic brands and unique styles will continue to deliver annual earnings growth of at least 30 helped by comp growth, new-store expansion, and operating margin gains, we reiterate our 'outperform' rating.

- Neely Tamminga Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's not a documentary. It's a historical fiction. But we have attempted to make the world, the background, the detail of that world as authentic as possible.

- Jonathan Stamp Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I think it's a challenge for Lieberman to reconnect to the rank-and-file of the party and prove he is an authentic Democrat.

- John McNamara Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We've sung for Black churches. If we went there and tried to sound Black, they wouldn't have it. They wouldn't buy it if it wasn't authentic. We've always sounded like we sound.

- Angelo Petrucci Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A PIN number would be a new intermediate way of checking a card was authentic. The verification services that could be offered would be applied appropriately according to the business process that was involved.

- Andy Burnham Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We have only still photographs of Elvis before he appeared with the then-reigning TV variety shows run by Steve Allen and Ed Sullivan. Director Kim Hubbard, costumer Jimmy Johansmeyer and lighting designer Joel Rand Pape have studied those carefully, getting Evans up on his toes in white loafers, tilting back with microphone in hand, with all the authentic Eisenhower-era jackets and blazers. Evans doesn't get to the white jump suit or gold lame until the second act. He dons black leather only for one number, I Can't Help Falling in Love With You. ... Ooh, now that's what I've been waiting for. I like that.

- Ben Evans Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

This man knew how to live. He was the authentic embodiment of a dream, ancient wanderer. He lived it. Talked it. Felt it. Fought it until at last the magic of his dream power became to us what it was to him.

- Avery Brooks Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I do the things I love on the theory that there might be other people enjoying the same things that I enjoy, ... And I just gravitate to what I think is authentic, pleasurable and has quality.

- Francis Coppola Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

She's very authentic. She's involved in opera and she sees it for what it is, looking at all aspects. Like every art form, there is the pain and the joy and, of course, the peculiarities specific to that art form.

- Kathy Hotchner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin.

- Hannah Arendt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Hopefully I've done it, not in a pretentious way, but just as a cinematic mix, ... It is kind of a flourish. I didn't know if it would work. What I wanted it to be was authentic, the kind of music she would actually put on there. What I wouldn't want was it to be, 'Oh, that's that guy who always puts music in his movies doing a big thing with music'. I wanted it to be that girl's taste. And yeah, she would put Pride (In the Name of Love) on it. You do go for some obvious stuff when you make a mix tape because it reinvents itself.

- Cameron Crowe Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

- Ben Okri Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes