Quotes About Authenticity

Lee Chang-dong, Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon-ho. I think the three filmmakers tell the stories that they really want to tell. Their movies always reveal what they think must be told. I have a lot of respect for that.

Charlie Parker said, 'Jazz comes from who you are, where you've been, what you've done. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.' It's the same with the revolution.

Yes, of course I love little Sarah Jessica Parker. I love the fact that when she accepts awards, she thanks everyone she's ever met and inanimate objects that have 'been kind to her.' And I love the fact that she hasn't had a flesh-coloured mole removed from her forehead (I'm not making it up; have a closer look next time she's on the screen).

I am riveted by Phaedra Parks and her performance of herself. She kills me.

Simple people can bring very good knowledge to Parliament because they know the ground.

I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?

My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap.

People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.

Life requires things from you - if you're really living it and are really alive - that are really difficult and painful, and you can't avoid those things if you're really participating.

I don't want to just model. Anyone can do that. I've let myself be in magazines in the past without participating as much as I should have.

One of the commitments I made to myself when I decided to write a book was to be brutally honest, particularly about myself.

Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.

I probably seem like not a particularly nice person, not a girl's girl.

If something appeals, something appeals. I don't think I'm particularly calculated about it. I know I have an alarm bell that goes off in my head where something feels like it has no creative integrity to it at all, and it's just about making money.

Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.

I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.

I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.

If you're strutting around Beverly Hills and hitting up these big industry parties every night when you're not making movies, then it's going to eventually consume you. But for me, I live most of my life in Boston. I do things no different from the way my buddies back home do them, except when I go to work, I go to a film set.

I don't go to the openings of shops or parties given by people I don't know.

I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing.

I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it.

I don't go out and go to parties and do all of that.