Quotes About Authenticity

The fact that I am able to put myself out there in this age of social media and YouTube is really a gift to someone who never felt like I fit into any particular mold. One of the reasons people are responding to it is because it is coming from a pure place.

A lot of influencers who have made the pivot to publishing, they tend to be ghostwritten, they tend to be younger. It's a little bit of an uphill battle by nature of coming from YouTube.

My character is very multi-faceted, very powerful, she can get in the ring and do an array of things but I like to use my YouTube channel to show other elements of myself that I feel I many not be able to show in the ring.

There has to be that zeal to do something new and surprise yourself and audiences. You have to stay true to your craft, and that should never be sidelined.

I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn't work.

The real trick to auditioning is just letting go of trying to please them. Make it your own. That took me a long time to learn.

I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader.

The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a camera or when you're on stage. There are some people who carry it all the time. That, to me, is not acting.

I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance.

Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.

Bon Jovi's trick is to use heavy-metal chords and still sound absolutely safe. Rock & roll used to be rebellion disguised as commercialism; now so much of it is commercialism disguised as rebellion.

I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.

You can't trick The Universe - it's like Santa Claus that way.

You see guys going up to girls in bars and saying, 'Oh, can I show you a trick?' It's a tool. I find it kind of sad; it breaks my heart a little bit. They should try to use their own personalities. It sort of smacks of using magic as a crutch, which is not what it should be.

I'm super happy to say that it's not that hard to write bad stand-up. I guess the trick is to write bad stand-up that sounds like you're trying to be good.

If you look at Adele, the reason she did so well was she created great music. It wasn't about a clever marketing trick.

There's no rush to ever put out a new Cheap Trick record. We put it out when we feel like it.

Drama is easy to fool people with, but you can't trick people into laughing.

The people who like my work, I know that I can't trick them into laughing someplace where there is not a genuine reason to laugh.

I have to tell you, I'm not like Demi Moore, where the tears trickle prettily down my cheeks. My whole face screws up and it's like, 'Oh please, get a room.'

Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.

Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt.

I may be a maverick, but it doesn't mean I like playing tricks.

If you're a comedian, it's a bit of a choice whether or not you want to be funny when you're not performing because it might feel disingenuous. In the same way, I don't show people magic tricks in social situations any more.