Quotes About Authenticity

I don't mind anyone asking me any questions, I've got nothing to hide. I like it to be as real as it is; that's what I call an interview. I'm not someone who's like 'Right, you can't ask this, that, this, that, this, that.' It's got to be a real interview. I've literally got nothing to hide.

I'm not a very good interview, usually.

When I hear an interview that I've done, and I've said 'like' a bunch of times, it just cheapens the sentiment.

We're not robots. There isn't a perfect formula for an interview and there are days when you bring too much of you and there are days, quite honestly, when you don't bring enough of you.

Charles Barkley is always a good interview because he's honest.

I can understand why people want to know who 'the real Ruth Jones' is. That's human nature. But do you ever get that from an interview?

Even if you're unhappy, just pretend that you're happy. Eventually, your smile will be contagious to yourself. I had to learn that. I used to think, 'I'm being fake ' but you know what? Better to be fake and happy than real and miserable.

Sometimes, the other characters are too normal and then you start to be brought back to reality but then Luna shows up and she is just so funny and cool and honest and slightly mad and she's all that matters. She is 100% true. She puts on no shows, because she is so comfortable with herself.

You know you're doing the right thing if you don't have to tap-dance.

He had always been such a peerless creature. Shelby had the manners of a prince (an imaginary one, not a real one; real ones had no manners), the bearing of a noble spirit. She could tell him everything and he never got bored if she didn't stay clever. No lights went out in his eyes. And he could tell her anything: boring things about what he'd been doing—only she didn't get bored, she just liked the sound of his voice.

where I grew up we believed there was such a thing as selling out and that those interested in the arts shouldn't do it.

Secrets are lies that you tell to your friends.

For the first six months, all whe wanted was honest labor, finely crafted novels, and surf.

If you are trying to please, how do you take responsibility for your own needs? How do you even know what your own needs are? What do you have to cut off in yourself in order to please others? I think the act of pleasing makes everything murky. We lose track of ourselves. We stop uttering declaratory sentences. We stop directing our lives. We wait to be rescued. We forget what we know. We make everything okay rather than real.

If your vagina got dressed, what would it wear?" (15-17)

I want to touch you in real time not find you on YouTube. I want to walk next to you in the mountains not friend you on Facebook. Give me one thing I can believe in that isn't a brand name.

For the most part, political correctness doesn't exist here. - Toby, Marymount Manhattan College

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

I hate people doing an emotional striptease. It's never genuine or they wouldn't drag outsiders in.

You have forgotten what you really like to eat and instead eat what you think you "should" eat.

If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.

He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending he was the whole.

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.

I won`t buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.