Quotes About Authenticity

Never be afraid of failure. And don't stop yourself from doing something you want to do because of what others might think. Only you know yourself best.

I've spent a lot of time self-reflecting. Especially as an actor, you have to know yourself really well in order to do things effectively. And when I dress, I dress for me. I don't dress to make other people think that I'm this way or that way.

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

I feel accomplished knowing that I'm still the same at heart.

I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.

By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.

I'm known among my friends for saying things I probably shouldn't sometimes, but I have to get things out in the air.

No one knows who the real me is, so I can be a hundred different kinds of me.

A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.

I want to be me - and people know it's me. I don't want: 'He's trying to act like Kobe' or 'His answers are like something Kobe would've said.' Nah. If it's me, I'm going to say it.

I really think I cook good Korean food. I really do, just straight up.

I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk.

Some of us talk about other people and what they do and la la la. But I'm not that person.

I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.

I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, I'm kind of astonished because I think, 'This is completely normal. This is just how I am, it's how I've always been.'

I come from a place where I find it hard to identify with a label.

I just don't want to give anybody a reason to label me as something I'm not.

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

I have never gotten into the label thing.

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

I never solicited a major label and I certainly wouldn't now.

You can't just buy things for the label - it's ridiculous.

Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.

If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!