Quotes About Authenticity

I don't want people kissing my butt. If I had a bad show and I know it, don't tell me I had a good show. I hate that. I guess because I'm 17, people think I don't see stuff like that.

I don't necessarily like the things footballers do. All these kissing the badge, just doing it for the clout.

I've never been that comfortable with the acting thing. It's difficult for me to separate what's really going on. If there's kissing, that's kissing. I'm not acting; I don't know how.

I'm not who people expect me to be. I'm not Henry Kissinger.

I believe in just being yourself, and the whole kit and caboodle comes with it.

I stay away from the makeup kit if I'm not shooting.

I don't like a too-perfect cake. You want people to know it came from your kitchen and not the cake case in the bakery aisle.

I'm not the neatest person in the kitchen by any means.

There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

Everything I do in business - and in the kitchen, period, I believe - goes from 1940 to 1978. It's the right way. It's the old way.

A big thing to me was to be able to be in a situation where I could speak my mind freely especially when it came to my character. Get the actual right feedback and not have too many chefs in the kitchen and allow me to be me.

I don't connect with shows where we have women looking ultra-glamorous all the time, including in the kitchen.

If you can't take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen.

I guess nobody can teach you the knack, or whatever it is, that helps you come to life on stage.

I'm not saying I'm the bee's knees. But I am a legitimate musician.

I knew a lot of girls who just wanted to be famous, and if that's your goal, that's awesome; that just wasn't enough for me.

When people see me face-to-face they know immediately that I've not gone under the knife and they are the ones who matter.

If I were really being myself. I'd just curl up in the corner and knit.

I think it's helped me that I've always been very grounded, very down to earth. Lots of my friends are people I've known from school, and when I'm away from football, they're the ones who I knock about with.

I'm learning to communicate honestly and knock it off with the hiding.

I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped.

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do.

Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.

You have to know yourself so well and be able to put it on whatever display you want to put it on and be confident in that and be fine with it.