Quotes About Authenticity

So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film.

I've made a point of not being, say what I refer to as a 'careerist' about anything.

Most of the time I don't go down when they kick me. I try to stay up, so the referee knows that if I go down it's because they kick me badly.

There's no social realism in 'Tyrannosaur.' It's not about the social landscape or the political landscape or any of that. It's just about human beings. I never made 'Tyrannosaur' in reference to anybody - I just made it because I had to make my own films.

I often find in the film world, that it's very self-referring. If you talk to someone about films, they talk about them in terms of other films - rather than as something that happened to them in their life. And I'm really keen to get back to film as a reference to real things, not necessarily to other films.

When I watch films and it becomes just about the reference and not necessarily a flow with how people naturally speak, that's when you're just saying, 'Okay, I'm trying to be cool and show off.'

You can't, as an actor, conduct yourself by making constant references to other people.

I'm in love with artists that are really difficult to cover or to copy. You can only try to copy them, but you will never succeed because it's intertwined with really personal references and really personal ways to exist on stage. They are really strong individuals, and are writing their own songs and know where they want to go.

I got to a point where I referred to myself as Dolores of the Cranberries instead of myself because I alienated my real self from what I became so much.

People have referred to me as 'innocent', which makes me feel disingenuous.

I will refine somebody in a minor way, but I don't want to totally change them. I don't want them to look like plastic dolls.

I'm probably not going to develop to a final state as an artist. Like, become better and better, more and more refined. Become 'pure.' I don't think that's going to happen to me, because I don't really see that as something I want to explore.

I'm not refined, I'm raw and real and I wear what I want and I have always been so different and golf is not that way.

I like to write my own songs rather than merely singing what has been handed over to you.

People know what authentic communication feels like, so having someone else handle your social media/commenting doesn't feel honest to me.

The way I move, the way I think, the way I handle myself - it might be by accident, but it's who I am, and I've just learned to own that.

Conventionally handsome is not really where I'm at.

Some people are very good at being themselves and being very natural on screen or being very sexy or handsome or whatever. I like that, and I aspire towards that, but I don't know if I always make it. I work very hard.

You don't want money to make you a social freak where you can only hang out with rich people.

You've got to hang on to who you are, what you are. Don't let anyone take it from you.

Music is in me. I don't have much of a choice. People might listen to one of my songs or come and see my because of my famous last name, but if my music's not good they won't hang around.

Weirdly, when I'm playing an English person, I feel like I've got nothing to hang on to, and it feels a bit strange and exposing.

I get on with people. I don't hang out with people who aren't nice. It's like, be real or go home.

Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.