Quotes About Authenticity

I can't make the new generation like me, because they didn't grow up on me. So I stick to what I know.

I'm a kid from New Hampshire who's pretty normal.

You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview.

I'm a dummy from New Jersey.

DDP was the common guy, the everyman, a blue-collar guy from New Jersey. He represented something that the average person could believe in, in a way that was a little unique.

I'm not Laverne Cox. I'm not Janet Mock... I'm just a girl from New Jersey who has experience and lived.

I would never try to measure fame; I'm really just a regular chick from New Jersey.

Every time you go to a new team, every time, it's like going to a new job. You have to go to your coworkers and tell them your story. 'Hey, are you married? Do you have kids?' I got tired of telling a lie. I really got tired of that.

We all put on faces, as Walter White does. We put on faces when we meet our friends, when we meet new people, when we present ourselves in interviews. We try to be who the people we meet want us to be, or who we want to truly be.

I'm very bubbly, so when people meet me, they sometimes think I'm fake. I'm excited to meet new people, but I guess I sound like I'm being sarcastic.

Whether you are seeing family, a dinner with your friends, or meeting new people for the first time, you should still have fun with your look!

I always thought that I was a terrible writer. And I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing. I think it's a new way for me to express things that are closer to myself than when I play a role because, of course, it's really not me.

My mom moved to New York City alone with a kid on each hip to try to live an authentic artistic life.

I like shooting on location in New York City.

If who you were was entirely based upon the position you were in or the headlines you got in the newspaper, or you had essentially subcontracted out your self-worth to the judgments of others, then you're going to be like tumbleweed. You're going to be blown.

I'm the kind of person who is entertained watching someone simply be themselves, whether they're putting their children to bed or making dinner or sitting at the table reading the morning newspaper.

I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

I don't think I constantly have to be on a promotional spree or be seen in the newspapers every day or even be part of social parties and film gangs. I'm having my own set of journey, and I am happy with it because I don't want to be like everybody.

I don't want to be in the newspapers or to feel like I have to manipulate things to make my life seem a way it's not.

I'm not going to be the next anything. I'm going to be the first me, and someone's going to follow, and then they'll be the next me.

I've always kind of been the guy next door who just happens to fight for a living. I tried to figure out what was special and marketable about me early on in my career and I realized that there's absolutely nothing special about me, so I wanted that.

I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.

I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.

I want to take Chinese cooking to the next level and bury the takeaway mentality.