Quotes About Authenticity

One of our biggest pet peeves is listening to bands that use harmony guitars for the sake of it. If you can't figure out how do something different than Maiden, UFO, or even Boston, then what's the point?

I would say I don't like people who are really into themselves or are very materialistic. Just always talking themselves up. Not being real is the pet peeve. Be true to yourself.

One of my pet peeves about biblical epics was that the characters' costumes always looked like they're just out of the dry cleaners.

You never saw Peter Sellers the actor trying to make you laugh. All he was doing was the character. What I'm saying is that I don't think you should know you're in a movie. I don't like it when actors are winking at the audience and saying, 'Right, isn't this funny? Are you with me?'

My way was not to be the petite, gorgeous, little cheerleader. My way of getting by was making people laugh.

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

My sexuality is not a phase. I am who I am.

I always want my character to have dimension, no matter what phase of life or situation they find themselves in.

I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.

Like a lot of us, I went through some phases on the way to finding what I felt comfortable in as myself.

With the social media phenomenon, where people's opinions inform so much of what we do with our lives, where the number of 'likes' decides what we should program, I cringe.

I'm Phil Knight, and I don't believe in advertising.

I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.

When you saw Jon Lovitz or Dana Carvey or Phil Hartman doing something, they were acting. It was real acting. Like, they were acting like that person. They weren't like - it wasn't even like they were really trying to go for a laugh, especially in Phil Hartman's case.

Philly is old-school.

When people look at me, ask me, or say something to me, they know I'm Philly.

My philosophy is if you're a man at night, you gotta be a man in the morning.

My philosophy is to be me.

My philosophy was that I never had focus groups.

My philosophy has always been to do the job I do to the very best of my ability and to be myself within it.

There's something different about looking someone in the eyes and doing something dishonest to doing it over the phone or screen.

If I were doing a real rock show, slapping the phone book in time to the music, grooving with the songs, then it would matter to know how I felt about what I was playing. You can't fake it in that situation. But I'm just counting them down as they appear on the chart, 1 through 40. What really matters is what I say between the songs.

I'm just happy I'm not a phony.

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.