Quotes About Authenticity

My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV.

What I read and what I go to the movies for is not to find a best friend, not to find inspirations, not necessarily for a hero's journey. It's to be involved with characters that are maybe incredibly different from me, that may be incredibly bad but that feel authentic.

What makes someone sexy in my mind is who they are. It's not necessarily how they look.

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and that is usually where the work comes in - figuring out how to make it believable and make it real to present someone's problems that you don't necessarily actually know anything about.

People don't need to necessarily see me in the jersey to understand who I am and what message I'm trying to get across with the things that I'm marketing.

I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.

I don't necessarily need Hollywood.

I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman... it amazes me still.

I don't always think it's necessary for somebody to be nice all the time.

What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.

For acting, classes are a necessity, but for modeling it's really just knowing who you are and knowing how to sell yourself.

When a real artist creates something, it has to be a necessity, the only way he can say something.

What I always do is go with the stories that put up the hair on the back of my neck or make me cry or make me laugh.

I never want to be anything more than I am; what I don't have, I don't need.

I needed to be myself and find my own identity.

I just feel not many people hear that you should feel good inside and feel happy within your soul, instead of needing to look a certain way, so I always try and talk to people about that.

Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.

Your closet needs to be a place of joy and celebration of who are you now - not who you were.

My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think my inner self was more hollow before, which made me more scattered, and more needy to get laughs.

You know, I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable.

I don't really look at myself as a role model. And I just am the way I am and if people want to look up to me, they do. By no means do I like to give a negative image either.

For a really long time, I thought being different was a negative thing. But as I grew older, I started to realize we were all born to stand out; nobody is born to blend in.

Just because I'm sassy and have a mouth on me doesn't mean I'm coming from a negative place.