Quotes About Authenticity

The more horrible the truth that you admit, the better you connect. You have to tell the truth.

I'm a horrible business person.

You only can rest when have the truth, even when it's horrible.

I'm a normal, horrible, screwed up human being like everyone else. I mean, I'm not horrible person, but I'm just as screwed up as anybody.

I came out because I fell in love. It wasn't a terrible, horrible, damn thing. I was in love with somebody, and I wanted to scream it from the rooftops.

I've found you don't have to make anything up. Reality is so complex and fascinating and horrible and beautiful.

People think that unless you become the de-glam girl, who has horrible things happening to her, you're not really acting; all it takes to cry for the camera is some glycerine. Not doing anything is what's difficult; I know a lot of actors who will agree with me.

The idea of getting old is horrific, but I don't want to make it worse by becoming a grotesque caricature. A lot of people have made that mistake of trying so hard to hang on to their looks that they make themselves look really scary.

I don't think people like to read about themselves or about others as they really are. It would be too horrifying.

Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.

I don't do girlfriendy sort of things, like shopping or going to spas. Spas fill me with horror. Frankly, I'd be more interested in doing a walk through the sewers of London!

I am not a clothes horse.

What do I really think? What do I believe in, without the horse manure?

The idea of being a young 50 sounds like you're trying to kid yourself, like a Harley-Davidson or something. I've bought a dressage horse instead.

There was a time when cowboys respected their horses instead of riding them to death just to show off for a crowd.

I don't host a show and go, 'Have you got my best angle?'

I don't want to feel like I'm a television host - because I don't think that I am. What I really want to feel like is, I am you; I just happen to be here.

I am pretty much who I seem, and it's not a television host.

We kind of had a rule where we said we're not just going to do something in the States for the sake of it. We would host a show only if we would host the same show back home.

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

The thing I learned about being in this industry is the core of hosting and the core of acting is authenticity. So if you're just real in those moments, no matter what you're doing, that's what translates and makes you successful.

There are things I wouldn't do when hosting, like get people up on stage or get the audience doing a sing-song or something like that.

I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.

In terms of jobs, I'm an actor. There's gotta' be depth there. I'd never say yes to something just to play the hot guy. That's not what I'm interested in.