Quotes About Authenticity

I'm not a millionaire, a billionaire, a CEO, or a movie star.

Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity.

We all don't feel like a million bucks, even if you're an actor. You just don't; not all of us feel like movie stars.

You think it's so cool to have movie stars in your movie, but they become people.

I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies.

So many things go on in life that never find their way into the movies because so much of it is unappealing. But that's what I want to show.

And I don't want people to think that I make movies based on other films.

Someone was always trying to put down my individuality and personality, making me sing Mozart arias that were nothing to do with me.

I still think I'm playing back home in the street in my town with my mates. That's why I love the game, and mostly, I don't pay too much attention to social media or look at stuff that's out there.

You should not pay too much attention to what anyone tells you, including me. It's very, very important to follow your own map.

People said my records were 'funky' and 'muddy,' but the truth is they were just demos.

I have a mug that actually verifies that I'm the world's best dad. That's a mug. That's not me talking. You can't just buy those.

I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don't necessarily try to put on a show. That's what my father's thing was, and he was great at it. Everything I say is because I feel it, and it comes out of my mouth. It's not scripted.

If you get into multicultural sort of casting for no other reason than to diversify, then it seems false.

'Divergent' is a story about people who don't fit into a category - that is a big part of the message - but it's also about conformity and forcing people into these simple archetypes. At the end of the day, humans don't exist like that. We're multifaceted.

I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes. Although I liked doing that, I wasn't out to fool people and say 'Guess which one is me.'

I'm not that cool with people who lie straight to my face multiple times.

There's some humility that has to be constant. And if I ever put pressure on myself to represent in any meaningful way for Asian people, then that would just get in my way in terms of thinking that I am destined to speak on behalf of multiple people.

I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't have time for a lot of shades of gray. I don't have time for BS.

It was a very hard decision to let people know about the multiple sclerosis because we're in an industry where illness is not something that show business likes.

My mum had a massive influence on me, not just in what she wore and how she looked, but in her spirit. She was married to one of the most famous men in the world, and she didn't wear any makeup, ever. I mean, have you ever seen the wife of a man like that rock up with no makeup on? Because I haven't since.

I think my mum has the foulest mouth of anyone I've ever met.

I don't think of myself as an actress. I still think I'm fannying around in my mum's front room.

My mum wouldn't do a film for money. She does it as a passion. That's why she's involved in things that are so brilliant. She really cares about what she does.