Quotes About Authenticity

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.

Basically, country is my kind of music - the simple melody, the simple lyrics.

On Towie' everyone is like 'Oh look at Megan she's having a meltdown, she's crying over someone' but no, I just want them to see me not doing stupid things.

I'll sit on the floor and cry if I'm having a meltdown. I don't care.

I am a proud member of the LGBT community and could never bear the idea that someone could say I was closeted.

I was never really a bone fide member of the folk scene.

As an audience member, if I go to a film, and I am watching two actors, and they're kissing, and it looks like they don't even want to be kissing, it just takes me out of the film.

For me, it's always this constant battle and search when I'm out on stage as to where and when do I really open myself up to the people that are there. How do I let myself feel present in the space, and how do I allow myself to get into the music and interact with the band members.

I think that when memoir goes wrong, it goes wrong from too much memory, too much detail. It's about clearing all that away and just getting to the story.

I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir.

If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.

Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction.

There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level there is scepticism as to whether it is really fiction.

When you write a memoir, and it's your life, and you're exposing things that are close to home, it's hard to see it changed.

If you bill something as a memoir, you're implying that everything in it is true.

The idea of a memoir is to tell the truth. I know that often the truth hurts, but a lie hurts even more.

People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.

Part of the thing about why I wrote memoirs rather than a novel is that if anybody is going to tell my story it is going to be me in my way.

If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.

If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script... The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.

I cannot be anyone else but Memphis. I tried that, and I was not happy with myself.

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

Working class men and women deserve a champion. They're tired of people just telling them what they want to hear to get elected and they don't necessarily follow through.

I'm not a big guy. I'm not a menacing guy. I'm not an intimidating guy. I may look that way, but just spend two seconds talking to me, and you know that's not who I am - not as a person, as a character. It's not who I intend to be.