Quotes About Authenticity

I'm always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. That's how I roll.

I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.

I don't think there is a fictional character who resembles me because fictional characters are not real!

I just want to be a nice girl from the Midwest - I don't want to have to act like a heavy to be taken seriously, and I resent that I have to be so pushy and political sometimes just to do my job.

Society loves to put bubbles up there and pop them, and I resent it. I'd rather expose myself myself.

I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.

I don't blame people or 'pop stars' or whatever for being so quiet, but you can't take it too seriously, especially on social media. It's a very hard thing to be yourself, especially when people are watching, so I don't blame them for being a bit reserved.

When I first started, I was definitely reserved,. I was still trying to find myself.

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.

According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.

When I was younger, I thought I had to shut myself off, work really hard to cry. I learned after a while that that's just not... You know, often in life, you cry when you're caught off-guard. That's where I need to be when I'm acting, too.

Sometimes I find myself in this super-raw place onstage where I'm like, 'Maybe that's not the best thing. Maybe I need to shut down a little.'

My Blackness, my queerness, my gayness, my inability to shut the hell up - these are all things that have really worked for me.

If you're lucky enough to have a position where people listen to you, you should say stuff you believe in - but not if you're Jenny McCarthy. Then you should shut up. But if you're right, like Amy Poehler, then speak up.

When you flip flop your personality and your characters so many times back and forth, people can't trust you. They can't trust a word you say on a promo because last week, they loved you. This week, they're saying, 'Shut up!' And it diminishes your credibility, and when you have credibility with the audience, you're halfway there.

I just try to be authentic and speak from the heart. Sometimes it requires me to shut up and not say anything.

In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

It's not about shutting people up or proving them wrong. It's about proving to ourselves what we're about.

If I feel I am not doing something right, I express it to people and to the media, too. I wouldn't shy away from that. It's healthy to interact. What you see is what you get with me.

I'm a student of Eric Church, and I say that a lot... I was drawn to it because of the honesty and because it's got rough edges on it. He doesn't shy away from anything, and that's the way I wanted to be.

The on-stage Gracie may look poised, but the real Gracie is shy, a little self-conscious, and, before every performance of my life, panicky.

I wasn't your normal plus-size girl who would dress in all black and hide in the shadows. I was very out there. But I was very shy and insecure about certain things.

I think that a man should not be shy; you should say what you really think and feel - put it out there.

I've never hidden the fact that I used to be shy, even when I was 30. However, I might have been self-conscious on the inside, but I was never inhibited about my body.