Quotes About Authenticity

I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.

I don't dress for effect, and I think that it never works out when someone does.

The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.

I let the actors work out their ideas before shooting, then tell them what attitudes I want. If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.

I think when I work with actors it's all about a process of learning to be private in public, instead of performing in public. Which is what women do: we perform, especially our sexuality.

As a producer, youre pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.

I respect anyone who's honest to themselves and able to bring that into their work in an entertaining fashion.

I like to think I've been a good example and an inspiration to some people. And some people say that about me, but I'm just going about my work and doing what I do best. I'm a very professional 'Me.'

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

I hate when any rapper would just use "Rapper X" because "Rapper X" is hot at the time and put them on the record. That's not how I do my thing. I work with my friends and people I consider fam.

Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me.

Trust your actors. That's why I work with the same actors time and time again. I encourage them to change the dialogue to achieve one thing: keep the characters honest.

As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work.

You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.

I hope this is the lesson we women really commit to memory - we learned that it doesn't work to try be someone other than who you really are.

Now I'm able to align my work and creative life with who I am.

Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.

It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.

Be curious. Be daring. Be different. Be yourself. And, if that doesn't work, be moi!

I let the comedy come through the character and just try to make sure that everything is kind of rounded in a truth, in a reality, because that's what I need to make a character work.

I get that some people just want to do work and keep their lives private. I think for me, it just felt like I needed to be open about who I am. It just felt like the right thing for me to do.

It's not as if you can act bigger to fit the surroundings or the budget more. Whatever, it just doesn't work that way.

In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains.

The thing is, I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work.