Quotes About Authenticity

I've never professed to be an intellectual. I don't try to be.

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

I think if something's emotionally real - and I'm not even talking about in movies or in art, but in life - you can't really argue with that, even if your intellectual mind might know differently.

The things that make me laugh are considered smart or whatever, I guess. But stuff that's self-consciously intelligent or self-consciously hip or cool, that doesn't do it for me either. You just try to be funny.

I was taught never to compromise: to never sing a cheap song. I never look down at the audience and think that they are ignorant or think that I'm more intelligent than they are. To think otherwise is totally incorrect and runs contrary to everything I was raised to believe.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.

I never intended to only do dark, serious things.

It's important to make art that you intended to make. If it gets compromised later, that's not a good thing.

If you don't like my work in 'The Affair,' that's fine, but I'll stand by the work because I felt that everything that went on camera was what I intended to go on camera.

I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.

I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.

I am intensely private and don't live out loud despite what I do for a living.

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.

I have realized that intensity is my unique point. I don't have to attempt it; it's innate. So, when every actor is seeking his individuality, I guess I have already found mine.

What counts is putting the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture. Otherwise it is just a document.

You might not get it right all the time, but you have to be genuine in your intent.

To be true to a play, you can't add something that takes away from the author's intent.

I think when your intent and your energy is authentic and it's real and it's of the moment and it's necessary, it will reach the people it needs to reach.

I started writing songs by myself. That always came from whatever I was feeling and being honest about that because I never had any intention of anyone ever hearing them.

It's always been my intention to never be boxed in. I never like to do something that it feels like I've done before.

It's never really been my intention; I've never gone out of my way to be relatable to anyone. I just say what I want, and I'm pretty blunt about things.

To show my everyday life to the world was not my intention.

Anyone can lie. One need only have the requisite intention - in other words, to say something with the intention to deceive. Faking, by contrast, is an achievement. To fake things you have to take people in, yourself included.