Quotes About Authenticity

I think after coming off of 'American Idol'... people kind of expect you to just be awesome all the time, and we're still learning. I had a lot of stage experience, but it was in a 200-seat theater, you know - it wasn't thousands of people in front of me.

For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.

I try to do as many of my own stunts as possible. If you keep on taking yourself out of the role you play, you lose the thread of the character.

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.

I am not made to be pulled into the public as a person. I feel threatened there.

Most of my career, people have the misconception about me as being threatening and scary, and having an intense look, but that's not the real me.

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

I don't always have to sing a song. There is something besides 'The Man That Got Away' or 'Over the Rainbow' or 'The Trolley Song.' There's a woman. There are three children. There's me! There's a lot of life going here.

We live in a world of social media, dating apps, online profiles where everyone is portraying themselves in 2D, trying to look cool. Portray yourself in three dimensions.

When I meet a girl I like, I call her the next day. I don't play that three-day rule. Maybe that's psycho.

Any online dating profile is about making us more human, more three-dimensional.

Play the role as a human being... human beings are three-dimensional.

In 'Boyz N the Hood,' every female character was three-dimensional.

I like three-dimensional characters - it's just more interesting when you get on set.

My dad's more three-dimensional than Opie Taylor or Richie Cunningham. He even has a temper! He's a real person. But some people are disappointed by that.

Asian men are sexy, confident, and passionate - and three-dimensional. We want the opportunity to portray roles that reflect who we are in real life.

It was a gift to get to play a gay role that was written in a three-dimensional, human way.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Labels need to work with artists to help them achieve their best work, not to jam records out that are half-baked or three-quarters baked.

I would say three-quarters of what I do depends on the sincerity of it. You can croak, but if you croak good, they'll still listen.

We never threw a record together. Each record was done really seriously, as if our life depended on it.

I threw away all my boys' clothes and started wearing makeup.

I am a theater girl, and a lot of theater girls dress however pleases them. I wear whatever looks good on me. I wear what I wear because I have been shopping at thrift stores since I was five.