Quotes About Authenticity

Anormal day looks like, you know, shower, put on the same jeans, the same tattered Gucci loafers I got at the thrift store, white socks, and my t-shirt and my very beat-up Helmut Lang blazer. I'm in the exact same outfit every day.

The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.

What's normal? I think I'm normal... Maybe I'm abnormal because I get such a thrill from real life, just real life, everyday things.

They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don't have them.

The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of a popular commercial thriller - to make them feel authentic. Drawing on real locations and real events is part of that authenticity.

I have lots of records, quite a collection, actually, that I stole from my mom. I have the original 'Thriller' album and I have a really great 'Elton John's Greatest Hits,' and I also have a N.E.R.D. album. Records sound more original. They have more edge.

Sometimes it feels as if the artist hasn't done the real work of engaging with the material. Film noir can't just play off looks and attitudes. A thriller needs a dose of genuine suspense. It does not have to be literal, but it does have to feel genuine. Otherwise the artist is just leeching off the form.

I made the decision that I didn't want to spend my life in rooms and write about rooms, or else make books that are researched constructs. I think you do have to get out there and live it. Thriller and genre writers seem to understand this.

If you're going to write thrillers, you have to make a decision if you are going to be realistic or go off and over.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

It's OK to want to look and feel your best. It's OK to work at being attractive, whatever that means to you. And it's also OK to not expect to be defined by that. It's OK to be powerful in every way: to be big, to take up space. To breathe and thrive.

I'm not the kind of person who thrives in 'the scene.'

I don't like the idea of playing a one-dimensional character who is just fearless, strong, and killer and has instincts and just thrives in dangerous circumstances - that's really boring to me, and I don't think it represents what most women feel inside.

You thrive in your career when you thrive with yourself.

I'm not the sort of person who if everyone thinks you're fabulous you thrive on it.

Everyone seems to be fleeing from the responsibilities that come from being who you are. I think that is why the blogosphere is thriving. It allows people to develop a fantasy self.

I've never really learned anything when I feel like it's being forced down my throat.

Any brand in the world wants to make desirable product. But we don't shove it down people's throats.

I didn't want it to feel like I was shoving my sexuality down people's throats.

The audience can smell it, if you put the title on somebody to try to get the guy over that's just shoving him down people's throats and that's not what works.

I'm not really gay, and I can't sit here and say that I am, because that's not real and that's not genuine. But I also can't sit here and say that I'm straight. This is something I've come to the conclusion through therapy and from being honest with myself. I am bisexual.

If I say something, I mean it. If I promise something, best as I can, I'm going to follow through. If I say I have your back, I genuinely mean it.

If you're doing what you think people might like, rather than doing what you like, people will see through it.