Quotes About Authenticity

I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.

If I had to control what I was speaking, it would be a chore. Right now I just feel I've got my shoes off, everybody comes in, I talk. If I was an actor it could be a problem, but right now I just talk all the crap, I can badmouth anybody I want, I can say what I want and move on.

I'm always aware that there are, broadly speaking, two different ways to act: there is acting, and then there's being, and I'm always more interested in that.

I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.

When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.

Often, architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It's like we're actors let loose on a stage, all speaking our parts at the same time in our own private languages without an audience.

Speaking the truth gets a little easier each time you do it.

We need people who truly live their faith, represent their faith, speaking to the issues of faith through a faith prism as opposed to just having folks talking about faith when there is a crisis.

I want a language that speaks the truth.

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.

A lot of people have said that I've got a voice that speaks to children. I think I've got a natural naivety to me. I'm childish.

I think what is important is that my work speaks for itself.

What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.

I prefer to be a great team not only on paper but also on the pitch. The pitch is the truth. The pitch speaks.

Movie dialogue is movie dialogue. It can sound real, but no one speaks that way.

My production company, what we are trying to do is I'm trying to create content that speaks to me, and it's not one color. It's not one size fits all.

What's cool is that Oprah is the same person on stage and in front of a camera as she is off stage and behind the scenes. She speaks the same way on camera as she does off camera.

I think people assume I only do light things because of the movies that are like 'Hairspray' and 'John Tucker Must Die.' But I think it's all just based on material that I really like and that speaks to me.

I speak from the heart. Certain people follow lyricists and people that put words on a dictionary together, and this and that. I'm more of a rapper that speaks how I feel. I just tell it how it is.

It's always the most fun to play that guy who, like, doesn't have a filter - that really speaks exactly what they're feeling.

With some writers, the script looks beautiful on the page, but nobody actually speaks like that.

You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story - that some quality speaks to the individual.

I think it speaks to people in 2015, right now. We address real situations. It's real life! Everything that happens in 'Dope' could happen today.

I think my music speaks for itself - it backs me up.