Quotes About Authenticity

My colleagues and I have to constantly remind each other that we must keep our own view on the world while making films. With 'Chicken Run,' we learned how easy it is to be influenced by outside forces, but you mustn't lose the heart and soul of what you are doing.

I get to remind myself and other people to be yourself, to rock you who you are, and don't worry about if it fits.

I've always been drawn to the message of 'Be yourself. Love yourself.' I need to be reminded of that all time.

I think everyone at times feels awkward, like they don't fit in. But I was lucky to have super-cool parents who reminded me to embrace what makes you special - that you shouldn't want to blend in with everybody.

Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's a reminder that the whole thing is not about style. It's about music.

Drag is really about reminding people that you are more than you think you are - you are more than what it says on your passport.

I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

But this show reminds me that there are other aspects to me besides the fact that I'm a funny chick.

It is good to connect to someone who reminds you that you have some real authenticity.

Our state's world famous motto, 'Show me,' reminds us that Missourians don't much value big talk.

I do not do a remix without crediting the original makers. For me, that is what is most important.

There are so few representations of women that look remotely real in scripted television.

Everywhere else, we are someone else, but at home, we remove our masks.

I want to remove the curtain of pretence from all of my characters.

You have a physical human reaction to something that another human being made. When you remove the human from it, and you chop it up, make it all perfect, you have a different reaction. Something is not there. You can feel it when it's there.

'Konnichiwa' was made because I don't like the industry. I really had to remove myself from it to understand myself.

When rock loses integrity it's time for renewal.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

I have friends that are reps and run labels, but I don't like to get into that world. I just like to pick what I like with my ears and play it for no other reason, not because of the label or the rep.

I'm not going to be pretentious and two-faced to get a good review. But that's the kind of thing which gets you a rep in this business.

I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.

If you want to be an artist in the long run, it isn't necessarily a good axiom to repeat formulas over and over until they're used up.

In my short career, I tend not to repeat myself. I have no interest in redoing something. Sometimes that makes people angry, and maybe it's not the best thing for me commercially. But it's the best thing for me artistically, and it's the best thing for my heart.

Every role I take on, I try and bring my best and to be as honest as possible. I try not to repeat things I've done in the past. Which gets harder and harder.