Quotes About Authenticity

I didn't have Cartier. I didn't have Gucci, Louis, none of that.

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

We all get angry and jealous sometimes, none of us is perfect, but we should not try to be different.

Nonfiction is never going to die.

I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

What I don't like is constructing a book that fits in with any kind of generic template, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

People sometimes say hoaxes are about the blurry line between nonfiction and fiction. I just don't think it's a blurry line at all.

I don't want to be responsible for messing up someone. I don't want to be responsible for that, because the things that happened in The Verve, it was heavy stuff. It was real. It wasn't just frivolous nonsense, you know what I mean? There was real people's lives.

It's as if to be interesting, you had to be depressed and messy, but that's complete nonsense.

I don't believe in casual dating. I think that's nonsense.

Playing characters who are wonderful and beautiful is hard because you don't feel like that most of the time... well, I don't. It's like this whole heart-throb nonsense. It's flattering, but that's not how I feel in the morning. It's something that goes with the job.

I just don't stand for any nonsense.

I won't lose my mind now that I have fame, nor will I lose myself once it goes away.

I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.

I get that there is no one quite like me, nor should there be anybody quite like anybody else in any field. I've always said, 'Don't be the next anyone; be the first you.'

The rise of the iPod meant that digital music became the norm, It's sad, but you can still find the real stuff out there if you look for it!

If people don't think I can fall into what the norm is, that's their problem and not mine. I'm not the norm; I'm not deluded.

I can remember back when I was getting ready for the NBA, going through media training, going to certain camps - they almost teach you to not say anything that will get you any backlash or not say anything out of the norm, and what you're saying could be true to yourself.

'13 Reasons Why' includes LGBTQ people and people of color in stories without making it about that. They're just living, breathing, human beings who happen to be different from the white, cis, straight norm.

I've never been more normal than I am now.

The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.