Quotes About Authenticity

I felt very comfortable playing Don Draper, because I knew that Don Draper is a character - that Dick Whitman is playing Don Draper. I felt very comfortable in that manufactured-confidence mode. He himself is manufacturing it.

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!

He who fears to be out of the mode does not deserve to belong to himself.

With me, even if my life depended on it, I wouldn't be able to cry. Not with somebody there. Because even if I'm talking about bad and upsetting things, if there is somebody else in the room, I am trying to entertain them. If there is somebody there, I am in performance mode. I can only cry if I am on my own.

When I'm in show mode, I can't even think about putting on makeup; I just have to be centered.

People who are my superfans will come to my app. Not everyone is going to come to the app. The superfans who come to my app will see the real me in a very different mode. That is the speciality of the app.

I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.

No human being should be a role model. We all have flaws.

I'm here to make music; I'm not here be a fashion model.

I don't sell myself. I am what I am. I'm a role model for a lot of people, for my kids. I don't want to just change because I want to make more money.

I don't want to say I'm a role model because I've not been the most clean-cut person, and there were times I could have gone the other way.

People - especially white people - they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

I would never think of myself as a role model.

But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!

I'm not saying I'm the perfect role model. But I'm honest. Period.

I try to be myself and, of course, be a good role model. I don't really find it hard, but you think about what you do and that other people look up to you.

Not everybody is some kind of media model.

The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.

With acting, the last thing you do is try to look pretty. Modeling actually makes acting harder - it makes you so self-aware.

I'd rather just be who I am and get the kind of movies that I want or the kind of modeling jobs I want based on who I am, really.

I think one of the secrets to modelling is the less you care and the more you're yourself, the more successful you are.

In terms of role modelling for younger kids, I never really censor myself.

I never really thought about modelling. It wasn't something I ever wanted to do. I used to always be so angry about modelling.

There's room for role models who make mistakes.