Quotes About Authenticity

You can't ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes.

Bryan Cranston's advice to actors, it's my favorite thing, and it changed my life. He said: Don't go into an audition to get the job, go to share your work. That was so liberating. You read it, interpret it, embody it the way you want to play that person and embody them with your whole heart and soul for those 20 minutes.

Forty minutes in front of Beck isn't really where it's at.

You always gotta do what you like. If it connects, it's a miracle, but it happened with Die Antwoord.

People have asked me if I had a miracle or a chance to change the way I look, I honestly know I would never do that.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

People are always judging you based on where you're from, where you went to school, how you look, how you talk. But at the end of the day, you're going to have to look into the mirror and accept who you are. It's all about being authentic.

I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that.

The only person you need to be credible to is yourself. When you stand in front of the mirror and nobody is watching, are you happy with yourself?

You see a person when you look in the mirror that no one sees but you. Other people see a person when they look at you, but you're not that person, either.

If you begin to think you're something you're not, you're looking in the wrong mirror.

I don't spend a lot of time in the mirror.

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

Different things made 'Cheers' and 'Frasier' special. Both of them, though, were honest. It was the old Shakespeare thing: Hold the mirror up to life.

Some actors are what I call more like mirror actors, which means that they do a performance at home in front of the mirror, and then they go deliver it. I'm not that type.

I find if you can look in the mirror and see something other than the face you see every day, it can free you up in terms of who you play. Wearing a mask can free you up.

I am an actor and this is holding the mirror up to nature, as it were.

I like to create something that's unique and kind of true to myself and authentic and everything. I don't really like to mirror myself after different artists.

I love when people mirror themselves in my music, and I think that's the whole point of it - not telling people what it is or how they're supposed to feel... but you having a relationship with my song makes it real to me.

It's very hard to look at the man in the mirror. Because you can't hide anything.

What I enjoy the most about 'Insecure' is it holds up a mirror to real life. If you're paying attention and you're watching consciously, you are able to make better decisions about who you are, the people that are around you.

I think one of the major misconceptions about me is that I live my life the way people think I lead my life, with hot and cold drinks running everywhere and a party all the time. They think of my life in terms of certain excesses that don't really exist. Things are actually fairly simple.

I think our live shows dispelled any misconceptions people had about us. When you come see us live, you know we're anything but a boy band.

I read one too many books about Joy Division by people who weren't there, and they always seem to dwell on the dark, the intense, the miserable image of Joy Division.