Michael Wolff

What's wrong with politics in the celebrity billionaire analysis is politicians. Populism is not so much a cry for economic equality, or even a disdain for elites, but a mass revulsion against the inauthenticity of politicians. Celebrities are real celebrities, politicians are fake ones.

American Author

James McGreevey

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.

American Politician

Martin Seligman

Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die.

American Psychologist

Daniel Caesar

Pseudo' was about, how after moving to Toronto I saw a lot of inauthenticity. A lot of fake people that aren't about having real moments. Real conversations.

Canadian Musician

Karl Ove Knausgard

My Struggle' came from a place of questioning and feelings of inauthenticity and frustration, and almost all of that is gone.

Norwegian Author

Winston Marshall

We get accused of inauthenticity because we play the instruments we play.

British Musician

Michael Keaton

One thing my mother had a nose for was inauthenticity.

American Actor

Used to describe efforts to expose something that's not what it appears to be.

Uncover Truth

Often applied to items like artwork, souvenirs, or traditional crafts that lack originality.

Cultural Products

Describes the negative feeling when something is not emotionally genuine.