Quotes About Authenticity

If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.

I'm sounding like an old fart talking about how bad advertising is today, but it's true. Advertising sucks. Guys like me and Bob Gage and certainly Bill Bernbach and two or three other guys, we exemplified and led the creative revolution.

Making children cry for a photographer can be considered mean. But I would say that making children laugh and show off their jeans for an apparel ad is just as exploitative and less natural. Toddlers' natural state, like, 30 percent of the time, is crying, and it doesn't indicate pain or suffering.

As soon as I could talk, I was bellowing at the top of my lungs. My parents couldn't get over how weird I sounded - like an old man when I was just a toddler! But no one was gonna shut me up.

We're not all Kim Kardashian. We can't have $15,000 from head to toe every single day.

I don't like it when you look too styled and wear one designer from head to toe.

When I came into the league, I was very politically correct, because I didn't want to step on anyone's toes. Now, I've gotten to the point where I know you don't have to be like that.

I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most genuine and the most artificial person you will ever meet.

I can play the main stage at the Newport Folk Festival in front of 10,000 people and do all the gigs and stuff I want to do. Then I can go home and get toilet paper on a Sunday morning and not get hassled.

I'm not a token black guy.

I'm not just a token Muslim.

I just don't have a tolerance for people being fake, I don't think. Maybe especially when I think they have bad intentions.

I really respect and admire Tolkien. I think he was the most honest of the Romantics.

Life will take its toll on all of us. We get injured, we get old. It's really sad to try to run away from these harsh realities of life. Looks are not everything. I am not going to look beautiful all the time.

I think that being in the closet is really hard. It takes a toll on your mind. It takes a toll on you. I think it just makes every aspect of your life more difficult.

I like to be other people, not me. And when you're on the red carpet, it's like, 'Here's Tom Hardy.' I don't want to be me. That's why I play other people.

Detail tends to be the first casualty of reproduction.

Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else.

I need to show on the outside as much as I feel it on the inside.

I don't know. Just because someone's pretty doesn't mean she's decent. Or vice versa. I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting.

What you need, what you deserve, is a guy who adores you for what you are. Who doesn't see you as a project, but a prize. you know?

Everybody else seemed to be having a good time. She tried to remember what her therapist told her to do in situations like this.) Don't compare your insides to other people's outsides.

This is my skin and not just the bag that keeps everything together.

I never wanted to be a celebrity I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.