Quotes About Authenticity

As soon as you think, 'Pirates are really popular right now with kids so I'm going to write a pirate movie'... that's when you're dead.

I think the most important thing about learning comedy is to start from who you are. If you begin the process by imitating what you perceive to be a comedy rhythm, you will get laughs sooner, but you will not be unique.

I don't like awards ceremonies. I'd sooner go to the pub with mates I've known for years.

The sooner I can move away from doing posh English, the better, even though that's what I am.

You can use all the flowery words in the dictionary, but sooner or later, you have to let people know where you stand.

It's easy to get by on a facade of fancy style, but sooner or later, people are going to see through it. I'm trying to be as honest as possible.

The reason why Roc-A-Fella crossed and became so essential to pop culture is that we were probably the most authentic people that were also so sophisticated.

For the first four or five years I was in Korea, I took a lot of direction from my management and label in terms of what people want. I found myself trying to fit into that thing I never felt comfortable with because the critique I got was that I was too American, and too sophisticated and polished in terms of my musicality and it won't sell.

You can't sing baritone when you're a soprano.

Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.

I'm not sorry for who I am.

The easiest thing to say is, 'I'm sorry.' We don't do that.

If you think beauty pageants are all about perfections, then I am sorry to say, it is not like that.

It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.

I'm sorry, but Juicy Couture tracksuits and Ugg boots don't move me in any way, shape or form. I refuse to wear them. Modern fashion doesn't appeal to me; the 1950s were better in every way, don't you think?

I deal out of a reality that isn't real. I'm sorry. I don't know what that means. I don't really know what I do.

I just want to be myself, and I really, like, can't say I'm sorry for it. I just can't.

I'm sorry: I'm a businessman. I'm not a politician.

There are people who expect me to look the way I do on-screen, where I have a great director of photography and fantastic lighting. I'm sorry to disappoint people, but I don't look like that all the time - no actress does.

I really like birds. Everyone always wants me to say that I can't stand to go near them, just like they want Janet Leigh to confess that she can't bear to take a shower. Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you.

Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry that so often we have forgotten the Christ of our Christianity.

I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish.

My first customer is myself. When I tell a story I like, I can sleep easy. I'm sorry when audiences don't like it, but I have no choice.

I'm sorry, but I am not interested in getting cheap popularity. I've earned my success through sincere hard work. And that's the only success I want.