Quotes About Authenticity

If I'm a bad mood, I can't go on stage and smile.

My family is as far from a stage family as you could ever possibly find.

What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their own.

I learned from the guys before me - Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Richard Pryor, just to name a few. These are guys that let it all hang out. What they lived is what they took to the stage.

I find when most people are offended, it's phony. It's an attention-seeking device. So I love to call them out on it from stage.

The risk of being honest can lead to people ostracizing you. It's easier to cling to the persona, the stage, the reputation that people want to see.

Whether it's writing songs, being on stage, being interviewed, meeting fans - I just try to be myself, which is kind of exhausting because it almost feels like it never shuts off.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.

I don't want to get on stage and just be another act.

I think the stage is the place where I feel most comfortable and most myself.

Nothing is real until you walk out on stage.

When I'm with my kids, I feel like that's really me. And when we're on stage, I feel that, too.

I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.

I immerse myself right into my character whether or not I'm relating to people live as an actor on stage or whatever.

With stand-up you can just be yourself on stage. And ideally, you can't see the crowd most of the time - it's just lights in your face. But I still have had terrible stage fright.

Nothing that you see on 'Indian Idol' is ever staged or planned.

I like to be real. I don't like things to be staged or fussy.

I've never been one to want to be the center of attention and be put up on stages every night. That's just not really my personality. I'm comfortable with it now, but my real passion is being creative.

In the initial stages of my career, I was actually hiding behind a mask to hide who I was, but I was getting frustrated. I wasn't getting better bookings; I wasn't competing at bigger events.

Just because I front the band or we play bigger stages now, it doesn't mean we somehow suddenly changed the way we approach things. We all still view what we do as indie and alternative in terms of how we execute it, even if the actual music we make is more pop than our previous projects.

Falling off stages or making out with gross guys isn't something I'm very fond of.

Lady Gaga is not saying anything new, she's just quoting something that's already been said, and staging it. It rarely seems sincere. That's why I always try to say something authentic.

Staging any play is very exposing because, if you are going to do it well, you have to put so much of yourself into it.