Quotes About Authenticity

We started to overthink things in the Dixie Chicks and do things we thought people wanted us to do.

When you think Tink, you should just think of me as that around-the-way girl - relatable and honest. Even in my lifestyle, my entire aura is real. I don't sugarcoat anything, whether I'm on stage or home in Chicago or just behind the scenes just chilling. I'm the same person you see on stage, always.

There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.

I am trying to be true to the work that I want to do and be allowed to make the choices that I want to make.

I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career.

Make a list of the people in your 'choir'... If you're not on your own list, then you're doing something wrong.

Either I choose to behave or live a life of someone else, or I choose to be myself and live the life the way I want.

I see theatre everywhere, actually. We're all kind of performing a version of ourselves every morning by choosing the clothes and how we appear - but the stage is so emphasising that I really feel comfortable in it.

We didn't want to be another post-Libertines band singing about London and playing chords.

I just wanted to be myself and that's why I chose to do 'Big Brother,' because I wanted everyone to see the real Amy Childs.

As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not, like, follow them. Because if I chose to follow them, you know, they could do it. You know, it's me who's doing it.

I chose to be this guy. It's who I want to be, and it's always been me - just keepin' it country.

All I care about - I can either be someone of the industry, or I can be someone of the people. And I chose to be someone of the people at the sake of burning a lot of small bridges within the industry.

I have never worked with anyone who I hold in higher esteem than Chris Menges. He's an absolute, bona fide, authentic artist.

I want to be a better Chris Quinn. I don't want to be a different Chris Quinn.

The reason people don't take Christianity very seriously anymore is because all people do is put it on their business cards and blab to get on television.

All the drama you see about Christianity or the Catholic religion? People are seeing through that, and there are really authentic people out there with faith.

I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.

I can only answer for Chuck Grassley; I can't answer for anybody else.

I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.

Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.

I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.

A lot of cinema is about the game of authenticity - do you feel it's real?

I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult.