Quotes About Authenticity

I've never massively minded not being cool.

What I'm trying to do is maintain some mindfulness about being popular - I wasn't so great at that last time around.

There are still artists that do a great job with a song, and they care about the lyrics, and it's not just mindless drivel.

Individuals will speak their minds, which I think is healthy.

I think 'Long Live the Kane' was pretty much a real boxed-in mindset with me just doing what I represented in the hood.

I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.

I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves.

I have read a lot about what I am and who I am: 'mini,' a copy, simply 'more of the same.' Dear delegates, I stand before you as I am and as life made me and I am proud of that.

I consider myself to be more real-sized than most of the actresses in California and in show business. They're very small. They're like miniature people.

Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.

Minimal is the word I'd use to describe how I live and dress, and it's also how I sing. I'm not a big fan of overemoting.

We don't dance because we can't dance. Our shows, production-wise, are always quite minimal. We always try and keep it more about us having fun and stay away from gimmicks.

When I'm not working, I wear minimal make-up. I try to keep my skin clean and easy.

I try to keep the theatrics to a minimum and let the music do the talking.

But I stand here as my own person, as a mother of three, as a former interior minister, state leader, who has served this land for 18 years and who has learned what it means to lead. And that leadership has more to do with inner strength than how loud you talk.

I keep a lot of things inside. I don't like showing too much emotion. Early in the minor leagues, they wanted me to show more emotion, but it wasn't me.

I felt like I wasn't considered for minority or Caucasian male lead roles. There aren't really a lot of roles written for me, and I mean me and who I am in real life.

I wouldn't change myself, even if I could. I like myself. And the minute you're not true to yourself, you're in trouble.

A woman in show business isn't honest with herself... so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.

If I talk about something I either talk about it or I DO it... the minute I talk about it it's lost all it's drive and all it's fun.

The beautiful thing about New York is, you have to expose yourself to other people the minute you step outside the door. There is no choice. And I love that.

The minute you start making calculations about what people will think of you as a person based on your work as an actor, you're on the road to becoming a bad one.

Early on, someone had told me, 'You know, the camera can always tell when you're lying.' And, Jesus, that intimidated me. 'The camera can always tell? How am I going to do this?' Until one day I thought, 'Wait a minute, acting is lying. Acting is all about lying.'

Thinking of yourself as or calling yourself a Buddhist can be a disadvantage because if you wear the title Buddhist that may be an obstacle which prevents others from discovering the human being in you.