Quotes About Authenticity

I don't want to give a false impression of confidence where I don't have it.

I like to have the impression that whatever is happening is true.

My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression.

At the end of the day, none of us are doing an impression of the guys we are playing; we are just trying to create the essence of what they do for a living and go through with their families.

With bad sci-fi - sci-fi that I don't really like - you watch it and get the impression that you're just seeing exactly what they created because they needed it in the movie. You feel like there's nothing more beyond that.

I think everyone has the impression that L.A. is Hollywood and fast lives. That couldn't be further from the truth.

I don't do impressions.

People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.

I'm definitely not trying to go out of my way to create my own image or ensure my own imprint.

The thing about improv that I really love in scripted television is that it really makes a moment authentic.

I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.

Everything is real but we write the jokes too and improvise them.

I'm not an actor. I can show up for friends and improvise a little bit, but I'm not an actor. I can't remember lines.

I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes.

I was always called a cry baby, and I was one. I cried a lot as a child. In fact, I still cry a few times a day. I'm still a cry baby.

I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.

If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies to anyone declaring themselves a 'God-fearing Christian' or a 'Man of the people.'

Most of my stories have some basis in fact.

In my opinion, it's more interesting to see magic happening in a world that feels grounded. If the world is already crazy, then anything can happen. So it's better to start with something real.

In my opinion, some of the hip-hop records that come out, people are willing to compromise. I'm not.

Finding a way to really reinterpret your home as an expression of how you live, is really good design in my opinion.

In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.

In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I had to deal with things I knew about and where I came from.

The only way that you can ever continue to have a career and have success and have hits is if you are honest to yourself in the same way that you were in the beginning.