Quotes About Authenticity

I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn't care about any of it.

You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.

I've been asked to do 'American Idol' and 'X Factor.' I'm an Ed McMahon kind of girl. 'Star Search?' I'm in, all day long. It felt more authentic, and the market wasn't oversaturated with karaoke contests.

My day job keeps me grounded. When I show up to work, I'm not some star fighter or anything, I'm just Stipe. I'm going to keep working in my hometown as long as I can.

I'm not a rock star; I'm a soft person.

You can't hide behind a Michelin star.

I don't live the life of a star.

Sometimes when you're in different countries, everything has become so homogenised and there's a Starbucks and McDonald's everywhere, and you could feel like you're in Florida. But in Japan, you know you're there.

People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland.

You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks... although the latter is much less realistic.

When you are talking about human emotions, stardom doesn't matter.

Stardom should be a discovery. You don't hammer it onto people's heads. You don't demand it. You command it.

Anupam can make you feel good in any situation. His sense of humour and connection with people makes him special. We both are real people and have not picked up the airs of stardom.

Cody put everything he could into the Stardust gimmick but that's not who he is, that's not who he ever is going to be.

When you're in a conversation, genuinely be in it. Stare people in their eyes. Know what you're talking about. Enjoy that moment.

In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people are saying. I find that kind of speech fascinating but screenwriters never write dialogue like that because it doesn't look good on the page.

No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere.

We don't want any starry trappings that would make us obsessed with ourself and our image.

When I first joined 'Dancing with the Stars,' I did not want to do it. It's not what I like, it's not what I believe in... the judges are fake, this is fake, that is fake... there is not a lot of reality.

I love Salma Hayek; we've been friends for a really long time. I admire how she has come such a long way and always remained grounded and who she is. She never compromises to follow her vision, and she is loyal. Such qualities only mark the great stars.

I like how TV used to be - 'Boys from the Blackstuff' and 'Play for Today', instead of 'Stars in Your Eyes' and 'Celebrity Come Cook With Me' or whatever. I hate all that stuff.

There are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can't.

Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavoury.