Quotes About Authenticity

I talk to grown-ups who are out to have a good time and they want to be spoken to in a different way. I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.

There's a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me. People want a relationship with you that they haven't earned.

I'm saying what a lot of people would want to say but are too embarrassed.

I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always end up telling our own.

Stripping away my ego and accepting my truth even if it's not who I want to see. Makes me want to be better when it's exposed. It's very vulnerable and exhilarating.

"Openness" [story] ultimately asks this same question - can a relationship survive complete honesty? As a romantic, I want to say "Yes, of course!" But, over time, I've come to agree with Dan Savage.

For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

We wanted it more live and raw. We didn't want a studio sound.

I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs.

I make the music that I want to make and make the show that I want to make. If you like it, you come. If you don't like it, you don't have to.

I find my relationships at 40-plus are really emulsified, juicy relationships because you have more of a sense of who you are and who you want to be around.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

A lot of times girls think they're funny, but they want to pretty at the same time, and if you want to be funny, you have to be willing to get ugly.

We're all used to seeing pretty people. I want to see real people.

Try becoming a person people want to be with rather than conforming yourself to the false identity of what you conceive their ideal to be.

I like real girls. When they're in bed with you, it's not a show. They just want to do that.

On the superficiality of the industry: We are setting an example of what we think is beautiful and you really want to put that much make up on me?

We actors can't say every line as if it has weight, but what we want to do is be true to the meaning of each line, whatever it is. Even the lines that are throwaway may come back later.

No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.

I love playing females that are put into these pressure-cooker situations, but they're real. I didn't want to be this kind of Lara Croft superwoman.

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave.

You can't worry too much about profile; otherwise, you become a different kind of actor, and that's not the kind of actor I want to be.

You can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I'm not going to freak out about it. I'm not that bad. I'm certainly not a boy, and it's been a while since I've been a chef.

I'm not a comedy writer, I'm a comedian, so I only write stuff that I would want to say.