Quotes About Authenticity

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.

I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.

I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland.

I'm not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to making it uncomfortable for everyone else.

It's fun to watch someone like John Goodman, and yet it takes work. People say 'he's not acting, he's being himself.' Well it's hard to be yourself, it's the hardest job there is.

I think the success of my work stems from being truthful.

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

In my heart of hearts, I know that whatever I do is going to have integrity, and I'm going to work really hard, and I know that fans are going to take to it.

Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.

The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

I feel quite comfortable and happy with making a work that looks like it could have been made by somebody else.

Those people who wake up and they're just beautiful, they're just born that way. Well that ain't me. I gotta work for everything I've got.

My work is my work and I will attempt to sell it for what it is.

If I waited for a proper occasion to get dressed up I'd never wear half of these clothes. Put on the clothes and you make things happen to match them. It doesn't work the other way around.

I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living.

I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.

What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.

I'm a nightclub comic. That's what I do. I work in the clubs uncensored because my mind is uncensored, and those are the thoughts that I have. I do the kind of comedy that I would enjoy seeing.