Quotes About Authenticity

I don't look like Catherine Zeta-Jones, so I don't think Hollywood would be that interested in me, to be honest. I just want nice work.

It is proof of sincerity, which I value above all things; as, between those who practice it, falsehood and malice work their efforts in vain.

Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?

I have the belief that a person and his art should have one direction; your work should be a synonym for your person - the two shouldn't be separate.

It's always fun when you're doing the CGI stuff, to actually get to work with someone who is real, who's there.

My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story.

Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?

I avoid falling into a trap of doing work solely to impress people. I always ask myself, "What don't I ever see?"

Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work?

It's the ultimate identity theft when you start messing with somebody's work. Thinking that you could edit the work, or mix it differently, or re-EQ it, or make claims about it that aren't true.

I am trying to work out what my taste is, comedy-wise. I look up to stand up comedians who appear to be telling the truth, but I don't mind if they are lying.

I'm really not a clothes person. To me, that's just work. It's the thing I hate to do the most. I don't want to be judged in that way.

I just don't like it when people get credited for their voice work and it's really shitty. It's really thin, there's nothing to it, there's no meat behind it. It's, like, "Oh, it's a celebrity."

I want to show people as they are, not glorified, no shame - fat, bulges, wrinkles and all. I want the work to be disturbing, unsettling, provocative, challenging, and thought provoking.

I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.

I've had to work very hard, and I don't really have a category or fit into any niche, so each time I come out with a new record, it's like, I'm a new guy.

As long as I stay honest with myself and just do the work that I am willing to do, and have been willing to do and am doing.

Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?

I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.

Robert Gober, for example. He doesn't seem like somebody who is just going to show in a gallery that asks him to show. He's just making his work, and when he's ready, he's going to show it.

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.

If we live truly, we shall see truly.

I often think, no one wants to read this. No one wants to hear this. My own work makes me cringe sometimes, cringe in a "there's nothing I can do because it had to come out like this" kind of way.

Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.