Quotes About Authenticity

I'd prefer to do the safari on foot, like they did in the old days and just take the camp with you, not driving around in 4WDs.

You can only make the work that you have to make. And I am old enough now to know that I can't start making shows that are going to win awards. That way madness lies.

I wish people could have seen what they called our mansion. They would have been so disappointed, because it was just an old house that we fixed up, and I love the old house.

I sometimes fantasize about being an old lady, when you can say the truth that everyone else is thinking and no one is saying.

I don't colour my hair, and I look like the back end of a bus, so I get asked to play old people.

People assume that 'The Expendables' is old school, but it's only old school because that's the way I know how to make an action film. It's pretty real.

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

I find it incredibly annoying to just go out and sing the old stuff and write songs that sound like the old stuff.

I kind of live by this old thing that time will tell whether people are going to write about this or that; all we can do is be who we are and make records we love, and everything else will sort itself out.

I never wanted to just press play on some DJ set and let the lights do all the work. I value old-fashioned performance a little more than that.

I love old-fashioned manners, as long as it's not forced. I can tell when it's natural or when someone is just trying to impress me.

Call me old-fashioned, but I like my conditioners to be conditioners and my shampoos to be shampoos.

All I care about is that people who like me think I'm funny. I get on with writing pretty straight-down the line, old-fashioned stuff.

I know I am old-fashioned, but I don't want to bring out a fashion line, I don't want to bring out an album. I just want to do the work as best as I can, and if that effects change for somebody, then that is great. I don't want to change the world.

But a sense of - in old-fashioned speak - 'I am OK, I do deserve to be here, I can do what I want to do, I can be myself, I can express myself' is really important as you go into the working world.

The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.

The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.

As I grow older, I feel like my authentic self has been able to shine through more and more, and people can see that.

I wanted other people to see what's in my mind as a young 14-year-old girl because sometimes, when men - or just older people - try to make films from what they think is a kid's perspective, it doesn't come out the right. It's like, 'Ehhh, that's probably not what we would do!'

I think especially older people, and I count myself one, in the business - people get to know who you really are. So there comes a time when you can't just go in and audition without everybody knowing exactly how you've brought up your kids, what you said at the meeting, what kind of food you cook.

It's been amazing to see how brands, magazines, and designers are focusing on real stories from older women.

I don't want to be an oldies act, kind of dragging around on the road just for the money.

Something I found while writing 'Alice & Oliver' - a book that is unquestionably a work of fiction, but which also borrows details from my own life - is that writing the truth often requires invention and imagination.

Being an Olympic athlete doesn't change who you are as a person.