Quotes About Authenticity

I'm not here to change the world, I'm just want to be me and do what I do.

I didn't think I was going to change the world for women; I just did what I did. My big thing was that I didn't change who and what I was to become successful. I will not be told what to do; I'm a real independent girl.

I can't keep changing myself according to how someone sees me.

'The Big Narstie Show' is, basically, Channel 4 gave me a good amount of dough to be myself.

I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.

I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

I found myself sort of becoming a character actor, though I don't know if that would be my natural makeup.

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

When I write, I just let my characters go, the way I let life go.

I always believed in my characters. I lived them.

As an actor, my job is not to always play characters who make everybody happy. That's not interesting.

I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am.

These people I play are not usually wish-fulfillment characters.

Approaching 50, I am living a life that is less sunlit Waldman/Chabon than tattered Charles Bukowski.

Honestly, I've always thought that Charles Barkley is the best guy on TV because he will really tell you what he thinks. But it's all well thought out.

I think that our goal in Good Charlotte is just to be Good Charlotte, and whatever happens, whatever that means, we don't even know, and make music and whatever.

Maybe some people have been turned off of me because I take what I'm doing pretty seriously, and I don't feel the need to charm everybody.

A lot of those early blues records and soul records were pretty much live. It was what it was, and they had goofs and mistakes, but it still kept its charm. We have to remember to keep the feel. It's so important.

When you try and appeal to the most people, you end up not actually making anything unique, because to be at the top of the charts I guess you have to do something quite bland so as to please as many people as possible.

I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.

Chase your happiness in a way you desire rather than going for anybody else's or society's idea of happiness.

A degree which is just the paper and does not have the sanctity of law is not the one you want the students chasing for four years.