Quotes About Authenticity

As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

I mean, shout out to the people that get dressed everyday and want to take that picture everyday. I would much rather post pictures of [my girlfriend] than of myself.

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

I couldn't only do one thing--I don't want the personal hell of oneness.

Be willing to share all of who you are. So many of us want a partner, but we're not willing to show all of us.

I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.

When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'

I'm quite happy being myself. I'm a big fan of Jessica Lange and Jeanne Moreau, but I don't want to be anyone else.

I have kind of an existential crisis. I'm in my late 20s, I get excited by contemporary young culture, but at the same time, I don't want to be the 40-year-old DJ in the club.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

There's what people want to hear, then there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, then there's truth.

As an actor, that's the most important thing. You want to be able to let go and not hold onto anything, so that you can give an honest portrayal and performance.

I think video is very useful, but it's very useful when you want a certain reality.

You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly.

Whatever my life looks like, I want it to be real and big and full. I want when, if I get hit by a car, I want to know that I have deep and real friendships, people to visit me in the hospital.

You're supposed to look a certain way when you're a celebrity, but I want to take care of my baby, and those two things don't mesh very well.

Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to L.A. And I thought, "I want to sell out!"

For me, being a woman suits what I want to talk about and what my audience wants to hear. Maybe I'm a dying breed.

It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.

I have spent far too many years trying to make everybody like me. It's not possible. People can say or think what they want.

I think there's a phenomenon of people who want to be around something that seems "dangerous." It makes them feel more real.

When I signed a record deal, I was always told by execs I needed to be like everybody else, that I had to show my midriff, things that would take away from who I want to be as an artist.

I'm not afraid to have no make-up on and no hair. I just want to be stripped back.