Quotes About Authenticity

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

Working with Kal Penn in 'Namesake' was funny at times. What we did was so real. We had fun on and off the sets, too.

People are gonna like who they like, there's nothing you can do about it. Just go out there, do what you do best, play your game and try to become a better person on and off the court.

I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen.

I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off.

Here's the thing about hair; I think most people think that I have Lego hair, like I can just take it on and off in one piece, and that's not quite the case - although pretty close.

I'm a big believer in being the same person on and off TV.

I think who I am as a person on and off the stage is always kind of the same thing, but I don't take a lot of things very seriously.

On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.

I really have never been concerned about being beautiful on-screen. That's just not my jam.

In marriage, there's a lot of ignoring each other, which is hard to fake on-screen.

Once you lose your credibility, you can never restore it.

Who you are as a person will only be amplified once you are 'famous,' so if you had a good heart, then I would imagine you'll have the same good heart but the means to do even more with it.

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.

Oh, my God, I literally only have, like, one friend that I'm actually completely, like, myself with.

I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be' this person, you know? So then its like, if I'm really this person, how can I be in the moment if I know there's just one line I'm supposed to say? It doesn't feel natural. I always just kind of want to say whatever comes up.

After doing 'Life After Beth,' which I think had one line that wasn't scripted, everything was scripted so that it sounds natural, and I went to such great lengths to create dialogue and to come across the way that people wouldn't sound like they were on the nose.

There's not one minute of my life that hasn't been documented. How do I feel about that? I would feel extremely bad about not having it on camera. That's how natural it is to me.

I am many things, but one of the things I am is a lesbian.

I've always been very much in control of my music and my image, and I think one of the things I've been lucky about is I didn't bring a label on board until I really figured out who I was.

I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to what you want to happen. I think one of the things that I always try to think about is what would really happen in a situation, what feels real.

One of the things I learned very early on is you need to cast the kids for the characters you want them to play. They need to be who they are, right? If you want a loud, boisterous kid character, you need to find that kid.