Quotes About Authenticity

The best part about doing 'Wuthering Heights' was you were completely in that world. It could not have been done with CGI. You had to be there.

I held in being sexually attracted to women for so long that once I got that out of me, the music became easy.

I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?

Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

I had a hell of a time convincing people I was gay - which was so annoying!

If you listen to the way I speak and watch the way I conduct myself - there's nothing about me that's rock n' roll. It's like, 'Hello, I'm in a rock n' roll band'. 'No, you're a narc.'

I'm helping country sound a little more country.

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.

I got accused of misrepresenting all people of colour in Great Britain. I would get told off a lot. 'How can you do African characters when you're not African?' But I gave it a go. Maybe if there had been more of us I could have just been Lenny Henry from the Black Country with Jamaican parents.

It's beautiful when someone can carry her own hair and body and curves and bumps.

O imitators, you slavish herd!

Richard Pryor was my hero. Richard Pryor was keeping it 100.

Heroes aren't perfect.

Most people aren't these grandstanding heroes.

I think heroes who are not flawed are not believable.

I think, as long as you tell real stories, I think people will respond to it no matter whether or not it's in the context of super heroes.

I guess I'm always drawn to the underbelly of someone, really, as opposed to how heroic they are. I don't judge those sorts of people.

I like characters who aren't typically heroic and come to some sort of epiphany about themselves.

There is no longer any pressure to play the heroine. So I can have fun and be the actor I want to be. I can look beyond the hairstyles and the clothes and concentrate on the acting.

I think heroines would be pretty boring if they were perfect all the time.

When someone comes along and expresses him or herself as freely as they think, people flock to it. They enjoy it.

It's a deal-breaker for me when a girl can't handle herself with class or acts different when you're not around me and things like that.

Some people say, 'If she's so real, why does she call herself with a made-up name?' Well, India is my real name. Or they say, 'If she's so real, why does she wear makeup?' I didn't know there was anything wrong with makeup.