Quotes About Authenticity

It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.

Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.

I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.

As an activist who uses storytelling to combat stigma, I have always been adamant that we tell our own stories.

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.

I like simplicity. I like using natural sources. I like images to look natural - as though somebody sitting in a room by a lamp is being lit by that lamp.

I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.

I'm not a girl who started getting into music and using my femininity to get attention. When I was getting into it, it was all pure skill.

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.

Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.

A producer wouldn't think of making a film about ballet dancers without using real dancers, but they will cast actors who have never held a bat in baseball films.

Not an Apology' is a good title, because I speak my mind more than the average teenage girl does, and I don't ever really apologize for having an opinion and using strong words to describe things and talk about how I feel.

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.

Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.

Despite being the greatest, Messi is an ordinary guy. He speaks like a normal guy, he acts like a normal guy. As a normal person, he has family, day-to-day problems in his life, friends and family, the usual.

Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character.

I don't know what I want, but I do know that I don't want the usual stuff, the cliched stuff is just too mind-numbing. They sell, I know, but it makes me sad to know that.

I do not wish to do usual things like Bollywood songs or so.

I am not the usual film star who enters politics just for the heck of it.

I try to be me to the utmost.

We have never considered our brand superior or inferior to any other one, and we have never spoken about our work in comparison to anyone else's. We are ourselves; we have never had the presumption to please everyone, but we believe in the utmost liberty to express oneself.

I play my part in my films with utmost honesty.

Portland is utopia. My favorite thing would be it's earnestness. I am earnest, too.