Quotes About Authenticity

The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're going to win elections in this country is to stand up for what we believe in.

In my stand up, I think I try to be less energetic because I feel embarrassed about how much enthusiasm I have. There's something about acting like I don't care, or if I act like I haven't spent enough time on it, it seems to go better. If I act like I'm really trying to sell it, it doesn't go as well.

I've seen stand up comedy, and after a while you start to notice that a lot of people are doing things that are like a lot of other people. There can be a bit of a herd mentality, and that's obviously less interesting because there's less going on. I'm just being totally frank with you.

Trying to give an individual a voice has always kind of been my mission in my life. As an actor, I've always seen that was something that needed to be done. You need to find that voice inside of you so that you can stand up and be who you really are.

Part of this whole Sleater-Kinney 2.0 is breaking the rules. We wanted to tell our story... we feel like we need to stand up for ourselves.

Finding your voice as a stand up comedian means deeply knowing who you are as an artist and a human being.

We're losing the whole point: music is not to impress people, music has to stand up on its own and guitar solos are nothing to do with it.

You should never hold back in giving your opinion - it's important to always stand up for what you believe in and not just agree with those around you.

We live in a world with men wanting to be brave. Not many will stand up and say, 'I don't feel right here.'

'Hedwig' was pretty much all the things I wanted to do that other people said I probably shouldn't do: drag, punk rock, stand-up comedy... You know, combine them all in a thing that's supremely uncommercial from the objective point of view.

I yam who I yam; I'm not somebody, like, standard.

In the entertainment world, you can have more of a personality and be yourself. You don't have to look like a standard of beauty. You can have something provocative to say.

I don't mess with Mase no more, because me, personally, I just go by a different standard than people.

Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature.

I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.

I know I'm fly - don't get me wrong. But I don't look, like, standard Hollywood. As a comedian, it's something you learn to use.

I'm definitely someone who's really picky about who I work with and how I want things to go, because I have a high standard of integrity for my music. I want it to be genuine.

The greatest impact you can have on people is never what you say but how you live... You set the standard with your actions. The words can come after.

I wouldn't be doing my job, or holding myself to that standard that I see fit, if I just shut my mouth and played the game.

I don't believe in pulling punches or being judicious, as the standard in literary criticism or academic musicology.

I don't imagine myself, my work, or my life, fitting into any kind of standardized path. In fact, the idea of there even being a standard freaks me out a lot.

It's a lot more interesting to dig into the popular music from where I'm from than adhere to some kind of standardized global pop.

I just want to make sure girls know they don't have to carry the weight of achieving nearly impossible standards on their shoulders every day.

Sometimes, being different feels a lot like being alone. But with that being said, being true to that and being true to my standards and my way of doing things in my art and my music, everything that has made me feel very different... in the end, it has made me the happiest.