Quotes About Authenticity

There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work with and to draw off of.

Show your work, and when the right people show up, pay close attention to them, because they'll have a lot to show you.

You're living life in real time, man, and we' ve got a good amount of work to do for each other. Hiding is not an option and you're going to step out and you're going to make mistakes.

I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

I don't differentiate between personal and professional work. Everything I do is personal.

If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well.

I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work.

Everybody I'm working with now is a friend. And I would be very, very remiss to work with anybody in the future who has not shown me who they really are.

I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.

I don't know that I'm unique in that people relate to my music, but I would hope people would say that I'm honest and that I do the best work I can possibly do instead of coasting.

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you

There are certain people that you don't have to even work at extracting their inner life. It is just there and they're happy to share it with you.

You work side is for everybody. When you're at home, you're not wearing heels and your work attire.

Your movie should lull people into a place of openness and vulnerability. If it is just a diatribe, it's never going to work.

I look at someone's face and I see the work before I see the person. I personally don't think people look better when they do it; they just look different.

I think that's great - I just try not to be one of those people. I find the more I think about it, the less free I feel when I write and when I work.

I think the honesty not only shines through in my work, but also my personal life. And I get in trouble for being honest. I'm extremely old-fashioned. I'm a nobleman. I'm chivalrous.

I think that I need to work on being comfortable at being normal, everyday-ish on camera. Unlike a lot of actors, I think that's the thing that I'm not so comfortable with.

People finally have permission to be human in the context of their work. That's the real Internet story.

If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.

Everybody will always find some way of diminishing your work, but it's all a lie!

I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.

Create quality art.... meaningful, passionate and high quality work! If it's not meaningful to you, how can you expect it to be meaningful to anyone else?

People trust those leaders who show real results of their work, rather than those who just talk about the results.