Quotes About Authenticity

I once said to someone, 'If I could shave my head and wear no makeup and get a part just on my talent, I would be the happiest person in the world.'

Most movies use older actors, but I thought, if I could just put kids on camera and get them to be themselves, what could be easier?

Don't get me wrong - I'm not against makeup. If I could manage looking like 'me' in a way that also read as tastefully, invisibly airbrushed, I'd sign up for that faster than you could choose a filter to do it for me.

If I could say anything to anybody out there thinking of creating their own content is to always, always, come from a place of authenticity.

We're all living in some state of illusion, even if modestly.

Part of my reason for 'Session 9' was to break out, to destroy the illusion of me as 'Mr. Romantic Comedy Guy.'

I'm not someone who chases illusions.

My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.

I couldn't care less about what people think of me! I do what I do, and I don't care about what other people think is cool. I don't care about image!

I don't want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.

I am what I am. I have not deliberately built an image for myself.

I know very well the difference between my image and who I am.

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

I'm not trying to clean my image to make anyone happy.

I would never create an image for myself; I'm not that clever.

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

Trying to live the image of the life which you have in your head... it's really hard not to do that, but I do think maybe it's cheating.

The whole image thing gets in the way. Then there are the guys that it excites them and it's what draws them to me. But I don't know whether they would care for me if I didn't have this image.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.

I don't care about my image.

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.

Some people are really good at maneuvering their careers and images and I'm not one of those people.

I think unretouched images are even more beautiful.