Quotes About Originality

One thing we never did with 'Bad Company' was talk down to our reader. And we certainly don't do that with the new story, 'Bad Company, First Casualties.'

I'm just trying to keep things rich for me creatively and for the readers who follow me.

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

I'm ready to create.

I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.

Authenticity can't be replicated or faked. You're either real or you're not.

I do not want the things I do to be easy and predictable. I want them to be real.

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.

As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab.

Being you is what defines real beauty.

We've shown everyone we are musicians first and foremost: we'll produce our own albums and play The 100 Club. We earned people's respect. We're not the band on MTV, wearing a bunch of makeup. We've proved we're the real deal.

I don't have a desire to make films that have cardboard cut-out or Hollywood stand-in replicas of humans. I need the real deal.

Express yourself. Tell us who you are. If you would never wear pearls in real life, don't wear them when you get married.

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

Taking nuances from real life will help you make scenes that have never been done before. It keeps the story interesting.

People who aren't complicated in real life come through as pretty bland on the screen. Most great performers are not very happy and well adjusted. Perhaps that's the price they pay for being originals.

I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.

I like real people. I don't like fakes.

I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.

Everything has been thought of before... the real problem is to think of it again.

Cartoons ran into trouble when they became too much like real life images. Cartoons had become poor imitations of the real thing.

At the end of the day, if you're going to buy a can of Coke, you want the real thing.

Bob Dylan's not a hype and a haircut: he's the real thing.