Quotes About Authenticity

Actresses are mental on the whole. But I think I'm pretty normal.

I feel the less you project of yourself, the more you can be believable as a character. I also think it's just better for your own mental health. Then you can be a human being and change your mind, and nobody asks you questions about it!

Top Boy' didn't try to glamorise anything. It gave it to you how it was. But it also dealt with mental health, social situations, immigration.

I've met people who don't know who they are, but only know who they are online. When I'm separating Bretman Rock and Bretman, it's really just to help with my mental health. The Internet is not real life.

I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.

The 'copy, paste' mentality of some investors and entrepreneurs - be careful of that. Do something that is unique to you, not because someone else's journey is mirroring it.

I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won't be able to get to know someone another way.

I don't go to events to have my picture taken. I don't really care if my name is mentioned on a blog. It's not my thing.

It was nothing I ever hid and when I was asked about my background, I of course mentioned I'm Jewish. It's an important part of who I am.

Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already.

Freddie Mercury wrote songs that were real and true.

Nobody should attempt to do Freddie Mercury impressions.

I abhor mere prettiness.

I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.

Just wearing expensive and glamorous clothes do not merit for me to do a film. There has to be a good story and a good role.

You don't need sex and controversy when your film has merit.

I will never be a Robert De Niro or Meryl Streep, the kind of actor that disappears into a role.

Know who you are, because that's how you will be cast at first. Then you can be Meryl Streep further down the road.

My all-time favourite actor is Meryl Streep. She can do anything and everything. She's so good in 'Sophie's Choice.' She changes her accent so well, which is something actors in India don't do although we should, so that we can be more authentic to our craft.

Excuse the mess but we live here.

Growing up, I felt like it was very dangerous to mess up in any way, both in front of men and in front of other girls. It was like you couldn't make mistakes. So having a female friend who's like, 'Get over yourself. You're driving me crazy!' - that's been one of my most important parts of becoming an adult.

I am failing as a woman. I am failing as a feminist. To freely accept the feminist label would not be fair to good feminists. If I am, indeed, a feminist, I am a rather bad one. I am a mess of contradictions.

I love seeing people in their mess. I find that heartwarming. Charm just doesn't interest me. If I want to see charming people, I can watch TV.

People want to see someone who looks like they might have this enviable life, but in turn, they are a mess and their life is a mess.