Quotes About Authenticity

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.

I prefer to focus on who I am as a person and what I stand for. We all want to look good, but I find it more rewarding to work on feeling good and going a bit deeper beneath the surface.

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.

To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.

My family has been around campaigns for a long time. It's something you really have to be sure that you alone want to do. Because if not, if you don't want to do it, that will just blow through the surface at some point, and people can tell. And when people can tell, it's all over.

Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real.

With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is.

You have to learn to draw the same emotion you had when you wrote a song every time you perform it. Acting is the same way: You have to find those emotions and bring them to the surface, and then put them back when you're done.

I definitely feel I'm outside of the polished pop girl group, which feels right. I don't think I could keep up that polished surface on purpose.

There's this misconception in the industry that you might have to go a little lighter or skate on the surface in order to reach people - and then in your second album, you get to tell who you are.

You can't just skim the surface of any role. You have to find the depths, because any other way would be dishonest.

We are true to our name. We're somewhat beneath the surface, and I think well always be to a certain extent.

Getting under the surface of real-life humans' poker faces humans is hard in a sitcom, even a drama.

I sometimes struggle, because my job is like the antithesis of what surfing is all about. Surfing's simple. It's real.

I hate stories in which a person has an occupation and you never see him working at it, like all those marvelous Cary Grant movies where he's a surgeon, and you never see him in the operating room.

I can 100 percent tell you that I have not gone under the surgeon's knife or had a facelift.

I have not had any plastic surgery in any shape or form. No implants. And my hair is not dyed.

Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

I think I'm the only 65-year-old actress in Los Angeles who hasn't had plastic surgery, so somebody's gotta play the old-lady parts!

I hate plastic surgery. I have a horror of any kind of knife. I don't like it.

I'm not having plastic surgery.

I have had no plastic surgery on my face. Can I leave it at that?

I don't care what I look like. I must be comfortable. Some of my friends have plastic surgery and Botox, but I'm not interested in it.