Quotes About Authenticity

When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.

Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

I don't think many people would think I'm a designer. I behave in a different way. I'd get knocked down and cut to pieces if I went home and flounced about; this industry is known for the flounciness, but I've got my feet on the ground.

My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.

I kind of have to take pieces of myself to fit what it is that radio wants.

We're not going to pierce everything that we have and paint our faces trying to get a different market. We'll grow with our audience. We're just going to keep doing what we do.

I never want to be in that stage where a band ends up playing state fairs and casinos. I am not willing to go out shooting up Botox and eating corn dogs while judging pig contests.

I am real, real picky with what I decided to do. I want to make sure it's new and at the same time that it's in the same color of what I have played before. Not to pigeon hole myself but I don't like to do fluff.

People who pigeonhole us for our queerness are not people I'm interested in knowing. They're so boring. How dare you be so boring? Grow up. Get some Ray-Bans.

I haven't ever been stereotyped or pigeonholed or put into a box.

I get pigeonholed into type-A personality characters, but I'm really not type A. I'm kind of a spaz.

I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.

Once you're sort of pigeonholed into something, it's quite difficult to get out of it. I have no aversion to playing a gay character again, but it would definitely have to be the right role.

My artistic manifesto exists in the world as poetry. So even though most of the things that I've done have been on other people's projects or could be pigeonholed in certain ways, that's not how I perceive myself.

I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

Without sounding pretentious, if you get the emotional truth right, then you're set. Then the funny stuff you can pile on as much or as little as you want.

I was never into makeup when I was younger, and I still love not piling on the makeup every day, but as I've gotten older I've actually found makeup to be fun.

Everyone has seen the serious side of myself and sometimes I need to take a chill pill and have a good laugh. That's who I am as a person.

What I love about how my career has gone up to this point is that I've always, always put my head down on my pillow at night, and I've been able to say that I've done, honestly, what I've felt like I wanted to do. And that's really all you can hope for in everything you do.

I wasn't a Pan Am pilot or any other kind of pilot.

When I did the pilot, Mort was very real to me. When I got through with the ten weeks, Maura is even more real to me.

Sometimes you become the person people try to pin you into a corner to be, which is not really fair.

I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist.