Quotes About Authenticity

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.

If you're playing a character who says whatever he wants, I felt free to say whatever I wanted on set.

With 'AGT' I was allowed more freedom to be myself. It was also quite a different scale.

'Scandal' is soooo Hollywood. It's not me.

Fashion shows scare me, and I've always been a bit more of a scruffbag. I'm not really put together like that.

Don't be scared of what people will say.

I'm not scared about saying what I think.

I'm never scared what people are gonna think about music that I make.

I have to live authentically at all times. And that's part of what makes me an artist. I'm not scared to do that.

You have to write about what scares you.

When you're living a lie, the scariest thing is to be alone with your thoughts.

I feel like I try to write from an honest of a place as I can - without scaring people off too much, I guess.

I have actual acting scars.

I have scars from every film I have made. There is nothing to protect actors. They treat you worse than a dog. You work like a slave, and you know, I like it. That is the way it should be. Every film should be like your last.

It's very scary to allow the world to see you.

One day I can be ecstatically up, and the next, I can feel this real blankness, a deadness almost, which is scary.

If it's scary, it's supposed to be scary. If it's funny, it's supposed to be funny. That's all I try to do.

Strong and in control - I don't necessarily feel that way. I'm a little bit more scattered in my life. I'm more of a street girl, in a way.

I care less if I can't be part of your scene because I am the scene. I am everything that is.

Nobody knows what goes on behind the scenes with a YouTuber.

Nobody really knows who I am, where I came from, what's in my heart, why I believe in the things I believe, what I see behind the scenes and they don't see.

If my characters travel somewhere, I generally write about a place I know to give the scenes more authenticity.

Love scenes feel very mechanical. But our whole job is to make it look real.

When people ask me what I do, I tell them that I 'do things in front of people.' I don't know why I do what I do. I've tried working behind the scenes. I felt left out!