Quotes About Authenticity

You can tell when an actor or actress cares about their work. It's really clear.

I'm talkin' about you. Stop pretending you're normal. You're insane. Make that work for you.

I'm a forthright person and I am ambitious and I do hope that I get to do more, interesting work but not at the expense of me not being who I am.

A lot of times when I'm not at work I like to let my face breath and not put makeup on.

I'd hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It'd make it boring, and I wouldn't have anything to work towards. It's not to everyone's taste, but I can only be me.

It's cool that people like what I do, but I don't work for the audience.

Rather than dispute their shortcomings or hide their mistakes, resilient people are authentic. Their humble, self-aware approach assists them in developing strategies to become better.

I just post what I want to, it's as simple there's no strategy or trying to send out a message in any way.

People can identify as however you want to. Right on. Go for it. But my strategy in this bigger game of life is to not identify as anything.

I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect.

Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.

I am not intellectually choosy. My choice of films reflect who I am, but it is not done with strategy and planning. I hear something and go by my intuition.

We don't mess with squads. Our friend group is not, like, a strategic thing. There's no strategy to our friendships. There's no strategy to the circle of girls. Everyone's, like, bound together for different things.

I don't really have a strategy other than to just be myself.

I'm not here to propel myself into the limelight. I'm here to win a football game. If I am propelled into the limelight, I want it to be because of what I do on the football field, not because of some grand marketing strategy.

My strategy is being as honest as possible.

I just write what I think is funny, or interesting, and hopefully everything else will take care of itself. There's no strategy to anything.

I've always considered myself a serious guitar player, but I haven't been really worried about whether the public thought I was. That never was part of my record sales strategy.

Be yourself. I had this three-week period where I wore this straw fedora. I thought it was what chicks wanted. And then it dawned on me that I was trying to be something that I wasn't, so I took the fedora off. So be yourself.

I stray away from formulaic, the formatted.

I think people could get obsessed with the idea of perfection. So with that, you kind of stray away from your raw imperfections. Like, I don't think people realize that people are OK with you missing a note here or hearing the rasp in your voice.

To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'

It's not that I don't experience absolute sadness, which is very unentertaining, but I think - when I'm being really honest about myself - I think there's, like, a really performative streak in my personality.

I like comics like Janeane Garofalo who is very stream of conscious in an honest way.