Quotes About Authenticity

For me, it's all about smaller character-driven pieces, about finding a person that I connect with and that I'm interested in bringing to life.

Being in a smaller environment - sometimes I like that. As a comic, we start off in comedy clubs, and there are people right at your feet, right on top of you. And I realize, as I get older, I miss that sometimes.

I'd rather have a smaller following of really cool people who get it, who will grow with us as we grow and are fans for life, than people that have us in their five-disc changer with Reba McEntire and Toby Keith.

But I like the small places myself. I mean, you know you can really feel it, and for me the music just goes really well in the smaller places.

A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.

Even if it's just the smallest thing, like what label I go by, I think to find the truth and express it with full confidence.

Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.

I really try to make smart choices about my fashion and really live a life on the carpet that's the same as the life I live normally.

I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep.

You can be plain and smart, or pretty and smart. You can even be plain and dumb! You just have to be yourself.

I feel there is no prescribed notion about how strong or how smart one should be. I rather believe one should be themselves and be true to everyone.

We assumed the customers were smart and that they'll buy what they like, not what the ads tell them to buy.

Really smart people don't want to say stupid things, and they really don't want to be a part of a PR-engineered interview. People really do want to be smart, and they want smart questions. So, if you ask smart questions, there's no way you can't do well.

All artists draw from their lives, except they mask it and camouflage it... which is the smarter way to do it.

Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.

Audiences are smarter than ever; they know if filmmakers cheat an environment.

Don't talk to me about how I haven't done anything to prove myself. I'm not worth anything. Like, seriously, do your history first, then come up with something smarter than things that are blatantly not true.

Honestly, my smartest business decision was to never do anything that I didn't love doing.

I don't take myself too seriously. I never think I'm the smartest person in the room.

It's easy to say, 'This is just a joke.' You know, the bearded lady? And I feel the need to smash it with every performance just because I want to be clear this is not a joke.

You can't duplicate me. A lot of fighters come out with a certain amount of style, and I like to see that, but they get smashed up a little bit.

You can't be, like, smashing guitars against Marshall stacks all the time. As a matter of fact, after a while, it just looks like posing - it never really gets down to any message or any real expression.

I mean, look at Adele. She sings and she's not posh, posh, posh. But she's absolutely amazing. She's smashing it. She's global. I just think why change yourself? I'm going to stay as me.