Quotes About Authenticity

I want to avoid becoming too styled, too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else. They start out with something individual about them, but it gets lost.

I feel more and more like 'myself' these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself.

I didn't get a lot of questions asked earlier in my career, I guess. But I've always been the same guy, more or less.

The fact is, I'm half-British, half-Malaysian. For an Asian who's grown up in America to be commenting on how Asian I am when they've never left America... does that make them more or less Asian than me?

We need more people like me who are real and aren't afraid to take a little criticism.

I feel like the more real we are, the more people will respect that.

I'd be a liar if I said I didn't care what people think, but I would rather have less people who like or approve of me for who I really am than a bunch more people who like or approve me for what I'm not.

What was so comforting was that the more I started being honest on my blog, the more people responded.

The more you make fun of yourself and don't try to go for any kind of respect, the more people seem to respect you.

I think if I had seen more people like me who are out and proud, it wouldn't have taken me 45 years to say it - to walk in the truth.

The more real it is, the funnier it is. The more awkward it is, the more people are stumbly, the funnier it is. I like a sharp joke, but it has to say something that someone would actually say.

More and more, people probably associate me in this world of comedy and these confident, brassy, big ladies, which I love, but my insides and who I feel like internally and the kind of work that I hope to continue doing feels very different from that.

As I meet more people who were my heroes, I see there is something about them that rings true with all I've ever read and heard about them, and that's all that really matters.

More people should rap about reality.

The more people I can reach with my work, the happier I am, but I'm not going to stop making the music I want to, just because I'm looking for a specific response.

The more people that choose to live an honest and genuine life, the better it is for everyone.

It wasn't until I had a platform and an opportunity like 'Being the Elite' to show people that I'm a real human being. Show people I have a personality. I think that's helped more than anything in my career.

People are just looking for honesty and authenticity more than anything.

More than anything, acting helped me discover who I'm not. I've learned that I'm a girly girl, but not a prissy girl.

You just got to be yourself. That's what people respect more than anything.

More than anything, I write about what I know. The experiences that I've had in my life and that we've all had collectively, that's what we draw from.

Moreover, I am confident when I act without make-up; I feel free, as there is no hindrance.

I never wanted to write 'Mamma Mia!' or 'The Book of Mormon' - they're not my thing, I don't care about them. What I do is very different.

I'm mortified when I see 20-year-old girls changing the shapes of their faces or plumping their lips out or their cheeks.