Quotes About Authenticity

Acting lets you be in a place where no one's judging you.

I don't have a career, I have a life. I don't have an exterior judgment on what would be good or bad for me.

If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.

Judgment comes from you comparing yourself to other people, and expectations of what you think life should be.

It's not often that you get to play somebody that has absolutely no cynicism or is not judgmental in any way.

Judy Garland was just so delicious in every way and just so honest and generous.

I don't do Judy Garland or Mae West, and I'm not a female impersonator. I'm an actor.

In this business, you can be at the top of the world and at the bottom of the barrel, and you're grape juice. I've been at both ends. It can make you become what you really are.

I don't want to jump through hoops for people.

I'd never jump on a bandwagon; sometimes people do that and it's not what I wanted to do.

There's Frog Jump on my GPS, so it's there. It's a real place.

I'm not a huge musical fan. It's like when people just jump out singing; it's not real.

You just have to be comfortable in your own skin before you jump into something where people that you're going against are going to be better than you in some way every time.

When people jump on your mistakes, don't hide from them; let people know that you're human, too.

I just say it as I see it, behave as I do. If people don't like it, they can take a running jump.

It's one thing to turn up and jump around stage and give people a good time - that's obviously a big part of this - but I'll always get deeper than that as an artist.

We've never been squeaky-clean from the jump. We've never been Disney or Sesame Street, you know.

When something get hot, everybody want to jump on the bandwagon and act like they created it.

My life is quite normal and for me it helps with my comedy. If you jump headlong into celebrity life it affects who you are and what you talk about.

The jungle has taught me to accept who I really am - my skin is play and freckly, my bum and hips are big, and my hair is frizzy - that's who I am.

One great thing about my mom, about the business, is that she has a really great head on her shoulders about everything and always has been 100 percent about the music and not about the other junk.

I'm just doing me, and to me, that's what got me this far.

I intend to live life, not just exist.

Being cool, having a 'cool' energy is just not attractive to me.