Quotes About Authenticity

I suppose my job is to describe spaces that are honest to me. And the goal, I suppose, is that the listener can hear themselves in some way in that song and also, in some way, hear me. And so if the listener is able to identify with my honesty then I'm being the most helpful I can possibly be.

I suppose I try to dress for women like me, women I would look at and think, 'Ah, she looks cool, she looks nice'. You kind of get to an age when you know what suits you.

Having to walk and talk and hit a mark and open a door proved nearly impossible for me. I suppose that's why we're on a reality show and not 'Mad Men.' Because we don't act.

I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly.

I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.

I suppose I've got a reputation for playing quite extreme characters and making them quite believable.

I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.

I got through with my ability to mimic others and make people laugh. I swaggered through life, but, in reality, I lived in fear pretty much every day. I acted like a completely normal person, and I suppose I was good at it. But, inside, it was a very different story.

I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.

I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

I'm not as cool as I'm supposed to be.

You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things.

Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed.

Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you're in love, and then you find out that you're not because you're not really hurting. But when it's real love, then it's gonna hurt. It's supposed to hurt because it's real.

The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.

My approach is always the same. I try to be as honest as possible. Find the real honesty and humanity in the character because even a fictional character is supposed to feel real. And my job is to find that reality and bring it to the screen.

Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.

Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.

I'm not supposed to be phonetically correct or enunciate perfectly.

Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away from it.

When you follow your heart, you're never supposed to do things because of what you think people might say. You do it for the opposite reasons.

I know I'm supposed to say this, but I really, genuinely think Matt Damon is a great dude.