Quotes About Authenticity

Imagine how great you will feel when you know your partner loves all of you, all the time. The good, the bad, and everything in between!

I wrote about what I was going through at the time.

To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didnt sign to Atlantic just for the money.

I don't think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?

When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it's because you haven't had parents around so you try to build characters to protect yourself.

I mean, I'm 6-foot-11, I've got red hair, freckles, I'm a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I've got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I'm a Deadhead.

Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way.

I've tried to stay true to myself this whole entire time, and I think I've represented myself as creatively as I could with what I got on the show.

Concerned we're in a time where politicians can't even fake sincerity. Aren't they supposed to be good at that?

I'm the same person. I don't put on a face. I'm the same guy every time you see me.

I don't like the sound of my own voice. And, for people I don't know, their impression of me is what they read on the internet, and they're so far off a lot of the time.

I am a storyteller and a researcher, and I'm sorry the world has a hard time straddling the tension of those two things, but that's who I am.

So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong!

I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it.

With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.

I'm me. I'm just out there being myself. I like having fun. But at the same time, I bring everybody together. So I'm really -- or I try to be -- like the glue of the team.

how can you be true and kind at the same time? how?

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.

I wanna go to the clubs and actually have a good time too, but at the same time, when the party's over, I have to go back to the real world and try to figure out who I am.

I don't really believe in that "you need to make them come to you" kind of thing. I'm like, I'll come to her and if she's cool I'll stick around, and if she's not, then I'll leave at any time.

It took a little time to get where I wanted. It took a little time to get free. It took a little time to be honest. It took a little time to be me.

You can't please everyone, and trying to is the kiss of death. I don't care about Wayne Newton's demographics. When I do, I'll know that it's time to quit.

I put everything I can into a record. That's what art is for. I take a risk every time I do one with my whole being.