Quotes About Authenticity

I always wanted my stand-up to feel like not just a show, but like you're hanging out with someone for an hour. I like to just talk.

I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.

When you're playing someone that's real, there is that hanging weight of how will they feel when they see this: will I make them feel exposed in some way, and how do I absolutely avoid doing that while playing this as accurately and empathetically as I possibly can?

I was always myself. I never pretended I'd been to a gig the night before and was hanging out with Rita Ora, because that's not what I do.

The true Hank III fans want me to be me.

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

I try to create characters people want to sit with, even if nothing is happening.

When you play a character you have to ask yourself, 'Can I make sense of what's happening here? Is this authentic?'

The characters don't all have to be likable, and they don't all have to be hateable. As long as it's interesting and you connect to them and they resonate with you and you want to find out what happens and it feels authentic, then we have something.

In life, you should be allowed to express yourself. People are happier like this.

You're going to be way happier doing what you actually love and finding other people that love the same thing than doing something that other people love so you're just cooler and you have cool friends.

I don't do all that well in the writerly world. I'm happier being outside the flow.

If women just got into it a little more, then the world would be happier. Instead of stabbing each other behind the back, just get into a fight, and then everything is out in the open.

Whether it is an ad or a business, it must be something I believe in. I cannot do something simply for the money. It must connect with me because I want to be a catalyst to make people's lives happier.

The grittier, the dirtier, the worse I can look, the happier I am. It takes the pressure off.

I'd been out to a lot of people since 19. I wish to God it had happened then. I don't think I would have the same career - my ego might not have been satisfied in some areas - but I think I would have been a happier man.

We want people to be active so you'll be happier and be more yourself.

Caitlyn seems so much happier and freer in her feminine self.

I'm not the happiest when it comes to my music.

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

I am happy being what I am.

I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.

I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody else.