Quotes About Authenticity

People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.

I don't like to hide the errors I make. Any time I'm doing a mistake, I'm just saying it.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

Once your career becomes about something other than the music, then that's what it is. I'll never make that mistake.

People make the mistake of drinking the Kool-Aid, believing your own hype, letting people tell you you're this or you're that or you're too this.

The only mistake guys can make is to try too hard with their appearance. There's something very unmanly about it.

An artist who goes around proclaiming that the art he's making is art is probably making a serious mistake. And that's one mistake I try not to make.

I make my mistakes in public.

I also feel that I have been very honest with my friends, my family and also with the public about the mistakes that I've made and the challenges that I've gone through.

I hope my fans can learn who the real Zhao Wei is and get rid of all the misunderstandings there were before.

Being misunderstood - that's the thing that scares me. Because my life is about oversharing.

I've always felt really misunderstood because I got a lot of energy, and I never conformed to a certain path.

'Magic' is a word that's too often misused in the record industry.

Hillary is the Mitt Romney of 2016, where she has very little in common with the average person. She doesn't drive herself anywhere, she doesn't put on her own makeup, she doesn't cook her own meals, and she doesn't research her own materials. She has very little in common with the average woman.

It's important to always mix the past with the present. I think that makes it feel more authentic and real.

I'll mix a lot of things. I'll wear a Temperley dress with flip flops, or I might be in head-to-toe Gucci and have on a ring that I got from a gumball machine for 50 cents.

I started to look like a cartoon character with the fringe and the catsuits. Yes, I want to change and mix it up. I want to change my hair, change my style. I want to be allowed to grow.

A lot of people say I am different from other actors and actresses because I don't mix around with a lot of filmy crowd.

I don't really want to just play the girlfriend or the love interest. I get so many scripts like that, and - not to moan, because I'm really fortunate - but I just look at those scripts, and my heart sinks a little bit because I think there's so much more to us than that.

It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we've never had an argument.

I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.

If people are coming to see me because they like what I do on 'Mock the Week,' that's great because they are coming to see me being me.

The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.

You can listen to a lot of cowboy records that sound goofy and almost cartoon-y. Its a fine line to walk, having traditional cowboy songs rooted in some kind of reality, while at the same time maintaining that mythos without it becoming a mockery of it.