Quotes About Authenticity

I'm not able to make amazingly perfect, precious pieces of content, but I get to make awesome spontaneous content that's frequently ephemeral.

R&B and all that stuff was always very spare and spontaneous. Nobody made those records under solid gold situations. It was just in and out, and you didn't labor over the thing. I like music like that.

Being honest and spontaneous is important when making music. But I'm also really logical when I compose.

I am a natural actor. I try to keep it spontaneous as far as possible. That is my mantra.

I think the first take is best, as you are spontaneous, and after that, it becomes a mechanical thing. I don't believe in second take at all.

A lot of people have their own idea of how you need to conduct yourself. But I think it's important to be spontaneous and honest, because what's frightening in the process of being correct is that you might lose yourself.

I try and manufacture recordings to sound spontaneous. Then, some things are spontaneous.

I don't want robots. I want players who are spontaneous.

I think my mouth just opens and I spontaneously say things that occur to me.

Living each day as if it were your last doesn't mean your last day of retirement on a remote island. It means to live fully, authentically and spontaneously with nothing being held back.

If I'm honest, my heart and my belly are saying that you're more likely to find me in a greasy spoon than a pop-up, but some of this pop-up stuff is great!

Be a player; don't play yourself. And don't play basketball. That's not your sport, Jeb Bush.

And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.

There is so much hypocrisy in sports.

But at the end of the day, in order for me to reach my full potential, I need an environment that allows me to be me... The executives at Fox Sports get and embrace me. Fox Sports allows me to be real.

Personally, I'm not all that interested in making the show appealing to casual sports fans.

As I get older, I find myself way more into sports. I'm in a basketball league. You maybe know some of the people in it. They're real people, not fake ones like me.

It's who I am. You win awards for sportsmanship and whatever, but that's just me being me. I'm not doing anything extra.

I can't be someone that I'm not. And people can spot when someone's being fake, when somebody's not being real, when somebody's sugar-coating stuff. People don't like that.

If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I'm kind of grateful I've got this image now. There are no skeletons in my closet. What you see is what you get.

If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.

Like most women, I have days where I feel like today I'm not leaving the house - you know days where you've got a spot on your nose or when you've just got off a flight, eaten fish and chips and feel really bloated - that one happens a lot to me.