Quotes About Authenticity

Forcing oneself is short-lived. As all things that are insincere are short-lived. If one is honest and sincere about his motivations, he will move with himself, instead of against himself.

Not through fame and accomplishment. But through Uncompromising Sincerity. Be not a pretender, my dear student. Be Uncompromising. For the man who refuses to compromise holds The Universe in his hands.

If you are true, your words will be true. An untrue person cannot say true words.

The thing that's tricky is sometimes the best voices - just because someone hits the big notes and sounds amazing - it doesn't necessarily mean they make the greatest artists.

Leave the fireworks for those who cast no spark of their own.

I've always said in interviews that I am a man I've never claimed to be anything but. Other than for performances, the women's clothing is in a box.

I have to laugh internally when I'm asked in interviews what nightspots I like to hit. I just don't have answers... so sometimes I make them up.

I have to be natural and not doing anything fake, not lying on social media, in interviews and life.

I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for.

The others don't like my interviews. And frankly, I don't care much for theirs.

I still don't like doing interviews. I hardly do any... I hope this will be the last one for a long while.

Live interviews are more difficult to distort.

I always do my interviews face to face.

Actors should never give interviews.

The point is the 'me' that you see before you is not the 'me' in my private little space, shape-shifting into the writing role, nor is it the 'me' that works with the actors. Here, at the end of the film doing interviews, I feel like I'm in disguise.

I've never really done any interviews as myself.

If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.

That's quite a difficult thing in life, to be who you are. And when you are doing interviews, you kind of feel this need to say something interesting.

When interviews are too cosy, I don't enjoy them.

I never lie in interviews.

It's very strange: I watch a lot of interviews with other actors that I know saying, 'Oh we had a great time; we're best buddies,' and I know for a fact that they didn't, and they actually hated each other.

I'm just me. I'm that cool girl who - as I like to say, I have that Carson Daly effect, where, if you watched 'TRL,' he was able to do interviews with NSYNC, blend right in, and then he would do interviews with Cash Money and blend in there, and you just naturally liked him.

I think interviews are good when you are an actual fan of the person you are interviewing.

I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.