Quotes About Authenticity

Don't make a film if it can't be the film you want to make. It's a joke, and a sick joke, and it'll kill you.

People want to know more about me. They want to know who I am.

I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those.

Yeah. When you want what's real and you try to find that in high school, you might as well be looking for a mossy rock beside a babbling brook on the corner of Sixth and Pine in downtown Seattle.

Actors always want you to believe something else even though that's the truth and to do that well it's almost a dying art.

I just wanted to make sure I had the music true to me and the life I'm living and to what I really want to say. That's super important to me.

In my writing, I want to be laid bare as a human being.

Wear scarlet! Tear the green lemons off the tree! I don't want to forget who I am, what has burned in me, and hang limp and clean, an empty dress -

When I'm acting, I just want to be the character and not have to think of any film technicalities.

I would never consent to a lame publicity stunt at a time when I already want to hide.

I obviously don't feel under pressure to look young, because I have had no Botox or surgery. I don't judge people who choose to have it, but I don't want to erase who I am.

I always use given and simple elements, I don't want to add or subtract anything.

I am just convinced that people want to see people on TV who are more like themselves.

We want them [senators] to be themselves, and I told them, be yourselves and say what you want to say. Don't worry about me.

I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and from your heart - and I think a healthy sense of humor doesn't hurt either.

She used to say 'You can be whoever you want, even yourself'.... Yeah, I show up knowin exactly who I was and never leave as myself

Ive found that if you just try to make the film you want, youll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, youre going to make really boring films.

I mean, at the end of the day when I'm making a record, what I want to do is what I do

The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.

But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.

No doubt, there are times when I'm like "We have all gotten really used to saying whatever the f - k we want to say," and it's something that I really take seriously, whatever that may be.

I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored.

I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life.

I don't know how I know that, but I do. I can feel the beat of that truth inside me. Taste it bitter on my tongue. Sometimes, like now, I didn't think I want to know who I really am.