Quotes About Authenticity

Political speeches might represent the ideas of the politician at hand, but often times, it's not written in their own words.

I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.

This perception that a good captain is someone who beats his chest and roars like a lion and gives big Churchillian speeches, that's just not what leadership is about for me.

I write all of my own speeches.

I am not a guy who can write speeches and when I speak I speak from the heart, I just say what I feel and what I believe in.

Death metal has now become exclusively about being evil, Satanic and playing full speed ahead. It's not what I'm into at all.

I used to pretend I was into speed garage when I hated it.

I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.

I was lucky to spend so long on 'Blue Peter' and 'Newsround' and if you are a bit giddy, like I am, a bit daft, like I am, and you are the kind of person who makes lots of public mistakes, like I do, then it's sometimes hard for people to take me seriously.

When I go outside in the morning for coffee, I'm not going to spend forty-five minutes getting ready. I just don't care.

When someone's acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you're watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes.

There's so many companies that are spending so much money on 17-year-olds... I can't compete with that. I'm not that guy anymore, they can't dress me up and roll me out there and make me look good. I am what I am!

We are from a swipe-right generation, and that just comes to, 'Oh you're cute, let's hook up,' and that's that. Where is actual, genuine connection that comes from spending quality time with someone?

I try to be as humble as possible and try to project that to the world. But some people don't see that. They think I'm just in Atlanta spending money. But I try to be humble. I try to let the world know that I am still humble.

Just spending time with fans and acting normal and talking to them just like I was one of their boys, that's what it's all about.

It's not in my nature to chop people's heads off, per se, or rob a bank or any crazy thing I've done on screen. I'm just comfortable reading a book or spending time with my wife and my daughter or watching the fight on TV with the fellas.

As a kid, I spent a lot of my mental energy hiding who I was and attempting to fit in.

All I can say is anybody who's spent most of his life living a lie is not somebody I admire.

Inside the noisy and chaotic modern information sphere, the message doesn't matter nearly as much as the messenger.

That whole Wavy Spice, '90s thing, it wasn't who I was or what I saw myself doing in the future.

I think it's important for a guy to be 'protective,' shall we say, but you don't want to come off like you just rolled around in an Old Spice factory. Everyone has their own natural scent.

I'm most comfortable being myself, but I will admit to having an abnormal amount of fun being the King of Spice.

The first dress that I wore in the Spice Girls, which everybody thought was a little black Gucci dress, was actually from Miss Selfridge - it wasn't a little black Gucci dress.

I don't want to be like Spider-man or Batman, the do-gooder kind of thing.