Quotes About Authenticity

If something I do now sounds like something I did in the past, it's because I played it. I can't help sounding like myself. That's going to happen. The things that I play on guitar that resonate with me are probably the same things that resonated with me when I started playing in Joy Division.

Most people have just heard Joy Division on record. And Joy Division on record was completely different than it was live.

The idea is that we're doing it just for the joy of the actual physical experience. We may record something just for the fun of it, but the idea is just to be truly joyful and truly fun, especially for me, because I take myself too seriously all the time.

It's all being true to yourself, being genuine and being the most authentic version of yourself that you can be. I think that can lead to a really happy and joyous life.

The sense of jubilee for music and what we're making is always genuine.

You can't serve up hearts like cherries jubilee.

The thing about animals is that they don't judge you. They accept you the way you are.

'Konnichiwa,' to me, is a classic because I don't make music for today where everyone is going to judge what I did in two years; they're gonna tell me today.

You learn to judge your friends for who they are.

My feeling with my characters is that they all have a right to feel exactly the way that they do, so I never censor them. I don't judge them.

I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.

If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether or not I'm aware of it, no matter what happens, I'm always going to have a fake self, and I'm not going to judge my fake self.

I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.

The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'

If they ask me to do something like 'Emotional Atyachar,' I am not doing that. I have a daughter at home, not that she will judge me but there are certain things, which I feel I don't fit in at all.

For me, money has never been an indicator. And it is very sad that each and every film these days is being judged by the money that it makes. It's a world that I don't want to be a part of, and I try and stay away from that.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

Being yourself, or being judged as yourself, is really scary.

You shouldn't feel judged when you are dancing or singing at the top of your lungs or existing in a maximum-expression way.

Sometimes I believe that the reason I have been able to do such exemplary work on the screen is because this is the only place I can be free, neither censured nor judged.

I think sometimes, especially 'The Bachelor,' feels like you're being judged. You play it safe, so to speak. I've never played it safe and I think that made for a really good season.

You can't play having a mental disability. You have to play whatever that person's truth is without any judgement.

Embrace who you are, and if people don't understand you, that's their own problem, that's their own insecurities. They're really the one with the problem - the people who are judging you and saying negative things to you, they are really the people with the problem, not you at all.

For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.