Quotes About Authenticity

All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.

It's hard to remember, when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.

At the end of the day, somebody someday is going to say something about you. At least you can look back and say you lived the way you wanted to.

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

I'm just trying to be the me that I am and not all of this other crap. I just want to be the family man, and if somehow I can make the money to get my ranch and get the hell away from everybody else, that would be awesome.

Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.

If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.

I'm always attracted to people who interest me. They've got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They're interested in people.

By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.

Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar.

You write who you are somehow. Even if you try to not to. You can't help but write who you are. I'm just not a very cynical person. I believe in the humanity of people, whether it is just the guys in 'The Full Monty' or Aron Ralston.

For all the acting you can do, the actual soul of someone does somehow permeate through their work.

I am not a fake. I am natural. I am just being Caster. I don't want to be someone I don't want to be. I don't want to be someone people want me to be. I just want to be me. I was born like this. I don't want any changes.

People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.

You don't have to fit into a mold that someone else has defined.

Do what you do and mean it every second of the day. If you don't, you're living someone else's life.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

Nothing's more charming than someone who doesn't take herself too seriously.

I've always been someone who believes in being real and embraced my imperfections with pride rather than covering it up.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn't give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn't seem right.

You can never connect on a deeper level if you idolise someone - you don't see the real person.

You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?