Quotes About Authenticity

I don't play bad guys. I think that's why I keep getting cast as bad guys: because I don't want to play bad guys. I want to play human beings that struggle with life.

I don't like the sterility of the casting office.

What's the big deal if I dress casually and dance in my backyard.

I'm still the same cat I always was.

Money is lonely anyway. When you got it, people always want it. You don't want to be used; sometimes you don't know where a cat is comin' from.

That's one of my favorite Matador records: Cat Power, 'You Are Free.'

Ultimately, I'd like to create a body of work where every album has its own personality and a reason to exist within the catalog, not just 'more of the same.'

If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.

I've never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

I always felt a bit different. When I'm with boys, I feel comfortable. When I'm with girls, I catch feelings. It's not anything I can control.

I try to do the story the way I feel the story should be done, and how that folds into whatever larger sorts of categories or questions is really none of my business.

Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.

I don't want to have any category stamped on my face.

I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.

I've always navigated my way around the comedy writing rooms because I didn't want to cater to this side and that side; I just wanted to be liked by everybody.

You can be accessible without catering to an audience.

For me as an actor, I find it's most creative when I'm bringing myself into the role rather than putting the role on. I feel like it's more of a cathartic experience.

I'm not really comfortable with being on songs with cats I don't really know.

We're all just cats trying to be original, which is what I think being a B-boy is about.

Never get caught acting.

I think, even in society, people get so caught up in how they look. I think I let that go, and I've learnt to not care.

Sometimes you get caught up living something that's not true. The people around you, the people you're involved with, are not the right people.

I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just... that's just telling yourself a lie.

I don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right.