Quotes About Authenticity

It's kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know.

I'm not like, 'I act.' I'm like, 'I'm kinda floating. I kinda did this movie; it was kinda like going to camp, and I don't really know what any of this means!'

As for the drag thing, we each do it in different ways and for different reasons. For me, it's kinda about expressing a side of myself that's always in there but usually doesn't come out. Mostly because I'm too lazy to look that good every day.

I'm one of those people who, even if I'm invited somewhere, I still kinda feel like I'm not supposed to be there.

I've kinda been an off-Broadway sensation. There aren't a lot of lights or big marquees around my name or my work, yet my core audience knows exactly where I am.

I've never played the jack-it-up kinda game; that's just not who I am.

Just because something's kinda indie and whatever and only a few people know it, it doesn't give it more authenticity over Rihanna's 'Work' work work.

I can't describe my sound. That's something I don't ever think about and I kinda don't want to think about it.

I'm gonna find creative ways to connect with people that actually matter and exist. That's kinda like my goal, like, how can we creatively do things in a different way so that we can actually get people and talk to them?

I think it's so easy for us to kind of just be robots and do day in and day out and not check in with ourselves, and not just kinda make sure we're okay.

When I first came out, I kinda overdid it. I dressed extremely older-boyish, like sagging, and big shirt and big jeans. I was just like, 'I'm gonna go extreme.' And then as I got older, the baggy clothes got a little more fitting to my body, but still masculine.

I was at all-white schools from kindergarten to twelfth grade, so I wanted to feel what it was like just to be me and not, like, Black Amy.

We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense.

I'm not sure if being Chinese really helped, but I do think that if a non-Asian had written a book called 'Crazy Rich Asians,' they might not have been looked upon so kindly.

Some of the sexiest things to me in a man are confidence, authenticity, honesty, kindness and masculinity.

I'm honest and fair, but I don't dispense false kindness.

I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did.

I can give you the King's English and then I can take it to the street, but do both or do one and don't do one knowing only the street. That's going to hold you back because what comes out is going to impress people, and it will impress them negatively.

There's an element of fantasy in both 'Animal Kingdom' and 'Peaky Blinders' but they're both real in lots of ways.

They are my friends. If they are the Beatles or the kings of China, it doesn't matter lo me.

I don't believe in the popular dialogue, 'I will kiss if the script demands it' or something like that.

I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.

If I want to kiss my boyfriend, I'm gonna kiss him. If they want to film it, that's their problem. Don't be mad at me for sharing a huge moment in my life with someone I love.

I don't feel like I've ever kissed any of the people I have done for acting. That moment didn't exist for you; it existed for that person.