Quotes About Authenticity

You have to be as truthful as you possibly can. That's always been my philosophy.

Your average director will be content with something that comes across as truthful, but we know, as fellow actors, that that's not great for a performer. They have to feel that what they're conveying is honest.

Depending on who's directing you, sometime it's heightened or more naturalistic, but generally you're trying to represent something truthful.

Let us be truthful to ourselves and the public.

There are certain roles - say, terrorist roles - that if I don't feel like it's something truthful, I'm not going to do it.

Leaders of organisations, political parties and large businesses frequently fail to talk in a straight and entirely truthful fashion.

If you get to participate with a group of artists and make something that's really truthful, that's about the highest you can go, in my opinion.

Actually, Nicole Holofcener's movies have always felt really right to me. 'Lovely & Amazing' is a movie about women's bodies that I feel is so truthful and painful and real.

In my world, I like everything stripped down, something that's really truthful.

As an actor, I believe that acting is actually behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

Doing a scene truthfully is very similar to doing a song truthfully. They're really parallel.

And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

You want to be honest with a character and play it truthfully, and you want to be genuine with your character.

All we want is food that tastes good, truthfully.

The actor's job is to put themselves in the shoes of the character they are trying to portray as truthfully as possible.

I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

When you're faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don't hold back.

I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.

Answer questions truthfully and don't exaggerate your experience. Lies will come back to haunt you.

Peace, truthfully, is how you feel inside.

Truthfully, you're not your audience, so all that self-consciousness and all that - it gets in the way of you actually just being the best thing in whatever thing that you're doing.

When I was in high school, there weren't a lot of out gay actors playing gay roles. I didn't see myself represented truthfully in the media.

I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully.