Quotes About Authenticity

I try to associate myself as just being myself - and being a person, an American citizen, going out there every day and just trying to be successful.

I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.

I can't claim to ever have done stand-up.

I'm not a baker, and I don't know anything about baking, and I don't claim to.

I'm the last person to claim that I'm sane.

You have to sort of see the way that the character behaves, and what the character says and does, and claim it in the same way that you claim anything, really.

I don't claim to be a fashionista.

Professional politicians often claim they are not professional politicians. Trump genuinely isn't one.

Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality.

People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.

When I asked myself what I'd want to see in a comic about a Pakistani superhero, the first word that came to mind was 'relatable.'

Playing a superhero isn't interesting because then you personify perfection, which is boring!

For the longest time, I still tried to hold up this act - this nice-guy, superhero, role-model persona - that wasn't really me and wasn't serving me.

I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.

Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.

The first relative I came out to was my aunt Teri, a superior court judge in San Francisco. Her reaction surprised me. 'I've known you were gay for years,' she said. From that moment on I was comfortable in my own skin.

I liked the fact that Lois was one person with Clark and another with Superman. I think that, as women, we do that a lot when we fall in love.

I'm no superman.

When you work on a pre-existing character, when you end up getting invited to be part of a legacy character like Superman, I don't feel like it would be true to the character if all I did was go in looking to express my own voice.

I'm not Superman.

I never said I was a robot or a superman or a super being.

I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be an actor and still go to the supermarket and not get bothered.

I'm certainly not a supermodel.

I'm not a supermodel. That's not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what's happening on the outside.