Quotes About Authenticity

As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a liberty that you don't really have unless you're life is that incredibly close to the character.

It's something I'd find rather distracting in a historical piece, looking at characters that have obviously just gotten off their Ab Blaster. You see a piece set in the 1300s or the 1800s, and you've got characters who have perfect abs and are incredibly well-groomed, not a hair out of place, and it just doesn't make sense.

I wanted to do well for me and for Maura. It is bigger than me. I have a responsibility. It's incumbent upon me to do Maura the best I can.

The great thing about letting people be true to themselves is they often do very good things indeed.

Independent films, for the most part, to me, are not so independent. They often feel like people auditioning for a big commercial career. They often do not have independent spirit to them.

I don't want to go and play a cliched Indian girl.

I look more Indian when I'm serious.

Vermutlich muss man geraume Zeit in der Haut eines Menschen verbringen, der einem nicht ähnelt, ehe man zu dem wird, der man ist. Oder vielleicht hat man auch all diese vielfältigen Figuren in sich und muss sich von einer befreien, ehe man zur nächsten werden kann.

The essence of a perfect friendship is that each friend reveals himself utterly to the other, flings aside his reserves and shows himself for what he truly is.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone it has to be itself.

To be naked is to be without disguises.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts

You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

Love is a free choice or it is nothing at all.

One cannot play fast and loose with what one knows to be true.

One of the greatest Reasons why so few People understand themselves, is, that most Writers are always teaching Men what they should be, and hardly ever trouble their heads with telling them what they really are.

Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

its normal pace, even with the threat of a gale. How long will it last, this peace I have found at sea? It is all of life that I contemplate—sun, clouds, time that passes and abides. Occasionally it is also that other world, foreign now, that I left centuries ago. The modern, artificial world where man has been turned into a money-making machine to satisfy false needs, false joys.

Le péché vaut mieux que l'hypocrisie.

The only serious enterprise is living.

Thereafter she saw his intellectual showmanship as a performance, deep down he could be as vulnerable as anyone

Truth is, both of us was desperate to be anything other than what we was.

I just want to be myself, Bibi wow, talk about low ambitions, don't you want to change the world?