Quotes About Authenticity

I think people looked at me as one of them - an ordinary girl from an ordinary family with a voice they could recognise.

When you watch me on the screen, you should not be able to recognise me. If people say, you're a natural and an organic actor, that's an insult. If you're being yourself all the time on screen, that means you don't know how to act.

If your intention is pure, an audience will recognise it and connect with you.

I've been portrayed as a womanising football hooligan, but I don't recognise that person.

I remember going to a bookstore in Chennai and getting recognised as the 'Ahista' girl. The good thing about the video was the director let me do just what I wanted. And my costar in the video was really sweet. I think it came across well because I portrayed emotions just the way I would in real life. I was just being myself.

That's why success hasn't changed me: because I don't want to be famous or do TV or be a model or be recognised in a shop. I'm not interested. There's nothing worse.

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

I don't feel like a pop star. I like being able to live my life the same as my mates. I don't get recognised much.

I enjoy fame, but I like normal, too. Going out is difficult; you are recognised, and you cannot be normal anymore... you start living in a bubble, and I am a normal guy.

It doesn't bother me that I didn't get all the recognition. It really doesn't. I tried to keep things as honest as possible. People will either appreciate it over the years or they won't.

Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.

I don't understand and don't enjoy sci-fi, and it's just that if people aren't real, and they don't live in a real and recognizable society, I don't understand what to do.

I try to play whole, recognizable human beings.

I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.

A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.

Nobody's perfect, everybody is flawed in a way, and to recognize your own flaws and to just enjoy them is something that I try to do for myself. I do that all the time.

If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.

To recognize yourself in a character onscreen, and to connect with them, you gotta recognize their flaws; they gotta feel like a real person.

I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.

There is an edginess in my work that people don't always recognize.

I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and their problems, so the more believable the family is, the more we can draw the audience in.

No nude scenes. No sex-symbol parts. I want people to recognize me for my work, not just for being pretty.

People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.

On stage, I'm me. I'm a husband, I'm a dad, I'm a guy, I'm a mess - but I am a cohesive thing that you recognize as one human entity saying these things that he generally believes.