Quotes About Authenticity

The most important thing you can do as an actor is bring as much of yourself to the character to ground the character in some sort of reality, and then you build around it and on top of it.

When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken.

The most powerful woman I know is my mother, and she doesn't wear any make up at all.

One of the most powerful things we have is to tell our story.

I've always found that the most powerful way to create change is to be myself and not be afraid to express who I am.

I'm drawn to what I'm drawn to. I wear jeans and loafers everyday, mostly casual, but when I really turn it on, I like a classic, simple look.

Mostly in movies an actor has to come to a mark, an X, and deliver his line - but that's so artificial, that's not how people really behave.

You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.

There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave.

There's so much dishonesty with motherhood in general... The truth is it's just a lot of embarrassing, humiliating moments.

The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.

Life is too short to just go through the motions.

If you try to mess with the game and kind of go through the motions, that is not the right way to play.

It feels like a lot of times when I'm watching people perform, they're just going through the motions and checking boxes. Costume - good, hair - good, make-up - good, death drop - good; it's like they're just going through a checklist of what makes a 'good performance' but it's not entertaining, it's very disposable.

I see bands that have been around for a long time who go through the motions. They're tired and they shouldn't really be doing it any more. We are doing it because we like it.

I'm very humbled by the fact that I do have so much to say, and I just hope that my walk, my honesty, will make a difference for people and maybe motivate them.

I want to motivate people to be natural and to embrace their body and who they are.

I'm probably not motivated by a lot of things that people think I am.

Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.

I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.

The main thing in measuring integrity is someone's motive and intent, not how many records they sell. Our intent in Ministry was never to be big. We just wanted to make enough money to live and to buy a studio, which we have done in Austin.

Motley Crue, collectively and individually, have done things on our own terms.

My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.

If you want to be loved, keep your head on your shoulders and feet on the ground. There is nothing wrong in that. I do the same, and others should also follow this motto.