Quotes About Authenticity

I'm not a guy who holds up a product and says, 'Drink this.'

Growing up as a gay boy during the holidays, there's the things you want to ask for, and then the things you ask for because you're afraid of asking for what you really want.

I don't do divas. I don't do entourages. I don't do the Hollywood crap.

I don't live in the Hollywood bubble. I never have and I never will.

I conduct myself as if I am a spaceman in Hollywood. I don't want to do anything fancy. I don't want people to send me free clothes. I just want to be grateful for this craft they let me do.

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

We not from Hollywood, so I'm not playing Hollywood's game.

I do drag. Just because my drag is not the drag of Creme Fatale or Holy McGrail doesn't mean it's less drag. I perform live; I just sing with dancers. It's drag on a different level.

I'm the same guy I've always been. I'm the same guy now as when I was hitting 50 home runs. I don't change.

Understand who you are, so that you can be the same, whether you're talking to a homeless person or the president of the United States. You're the same person.

Even though I am an actor, by nature I am what you could call a homely girl.

I never wore high heels in my hometown.

My name is Ella; that's who I am at school, hanging out with friends, while I'm doing homework. But when I'm up on stage, 'Lorde' is a character.

What I mean by being real is just when you are doing dance celebrations, sports celebrations, like the cooking dance or anything like that. When you're an artist, you want to always try your best to do the homework and see where it originated from.

I love those moments - the homework, the school run, when I get to chat to other mums. That's real life.

You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.

I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.

Nothing's wrong with honest emotion.

Let's be honest. Canada wasn't ever cool.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

Good design should be honest.

An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'

When have I ever said I don't want to sell out? I've been the most honest, 'I'm going to sell out right in your face' when I get the chance.

I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.