Quotes About Authenticity

Those people are corny. You think I'm rolling to a club with Lyor Cohen or John Meneilly?

John McCain... looks like a fraud to me.

The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew how. On 'Rock 'n' Roll,' John Lennon does nothing but interpret old rock.

If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it.

I like Johnny Carson because he doesn't hold anything back when he's going for a laugh. Johnny will do anything, say anything, to get his laugh.

Being 'Johnny' was almost like an out of body experience. I thought he was just a character that I'd created and could quite easily step away from, but it was much more difficult than that.

I don't see myself as anything special. I'm just Johnny Gargano. I always have been, no matter what I'm about to do or where I am.

I am not The Rock. I am Dwayne Johnson.

I'm not trying to emulate or imitate. But I do believe that I embody that spirit from Robert Johnson on up.

Yeah, Patrice Johnson is an incredible actress. She makes it real easy to cry when she cries.

Come join us; see the reality of what I have to do to achieve what I achieve. There are no cutting corners.

I existed before the mainstream. Why would I join them? I watched the mainstream come up, and now I'm watching it collapse. I don't want to be a part of that.

When I first joined the army, I felt I had to be part of the alpha male culture. But I didn't.

I've chosen to be this way because that's how I feel comfortable with myself. That's how I am. It's about joining up the dots between how you look and how you feel inside, and I think that's what I've done, and I think people do it differently.

I am what I was before joining films. Nothing has changed, and I hope nothing will ever change. I'll always remain the way I am.

I can't stand it when restaurants don't have a sense of place in a city. When I'm in London, I want to know I'm in London. When you're sitting in my joint, you know you're sitting in Seattle.

Not everybody should be laughing at everything at the same time. That's not even natural. My thing is to feel natural, because I don't want to feel like I could just make people laugh at every single joke, every single time, with the same decibel level.

My brand of humor is trying to play the situation as real as possible because I'm not the type of guy who is a joke a minute.

To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

I ain't apologizing for anything, especially if it's a joke.

If I write a joke, sometimes people will call it a 'lie,' and I'm fascinated with that.

Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.

I could always take a joke. I could always be the butt of the joke. I could always hand it out. That was just who I was.

Most of Charlotte's character is really who she is. A lot of who Ashley is is Charlotte and the same with my dad. It's not like I'm the Joker.