Quotes About Authenticity

I'm not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It's a great thing to me, that kind of interviewer, but I'm not it. It doesn't play to my strengths at all. I like to interview people who are interested in telling their story and tell it as truthfully as they can.

I do think that for a queer person to speak truthfully without shame about their own experiences is political.

I feel as though there are things that I'm trying to do - you know, capturing truthfully some aspect of human experience - and I'm trying really hard not to be fake. And in writing, as in life, it's harder than you think.

When I choose a role, what I'm looking for is the ability is to tell our stories. Me being a black woman, that's just a given. It's going to be a part of any role I do, making sure I tell it truthfully and nuanced and in a way that many people can relate to.

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.

My only job is to act and play the character truthfully and honestly.

Women should be portrayed as they are, authentically and truthfully.

The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

I'm very true to the old punk ethics of honesty and truthfulness and integrity... and still be authentic.

I think when an actor feels like they're being watched with great sensitivity and a subtle eye and a nose for truthfulness, that has some effect.

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

You know, I think what the American people want more than anything else right now is someone who's just going to look them in the eye and tell them the truth, even some truths that they don't like. And - but they have to believe the person's speaking from their heart and are authentic.

The thing is, even if you're playing sort of a heightened character and playing inside sort of a heightened reality, you can still apply your own truths to those characters.

I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits.

I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.

I look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the truths about life that are presented through them.

Why am I not just some old woman ranting in a room? I think because what I say connects with people's truths.

When you're older, you realize a little bit more hard truths. You are who you are. And the people that like you, they like you for being you.

I do not try to play a role. I feel good being myself and saying what I think.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

It's never too late to try authenticity.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.