Quotes About Authenticity

I have stripped back with loads of things, my hair, my make-up, my lips, right down to my clothes. I feel less is more.

The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.

My movies are usually about stripping off the makeup, getting down to the skeleton.

In my personal life, I have always been bold, from the clothes I wear to how I talk. For me, boldness does not necessarily mean stripping. I think people have wrong notion about boldness. For me, bold is being different.

The best strips are the most honest. That's just the truth of it.

Cooking is a great leveller. You can be a sports star, an actor, an entrepreneur, anything, but cooking strips it all away.

My strips are not always funny, and they can be pretty grim at times, and I know I lose readers because of it, but I can't do anything about it - my work is very much connected to something I need to do in order to feel stable.

Some of the reviewers wanted less. Some wanted lots more. Some wanted lots more of something else. But these strips are exactly what they are.

I think the corporate world is pretty starved for personality. The reason you have comic strips like 'Dilbert' and sitcoms like 'The Office' is that people just can't be genuine human beings in a corporate environment. So if you can really be your own self, even if it's a little bit different, I think people are really drawn to that.

I can't even look at daily comic strips. And I hate sitcoms because they don't seem like real people to me: they're props that often say horrible things to each other, which I don't find funny. I have to feel like they're real people.

There's no pressure to strive to succeed on anything. I get to step into every single day and just enjoy the process, enjoy every moment, just be fully who I am and not feel failure in any way, but just be able to pursue success - and know that whatever happens, it is what it is.

Sometimes things get too layered and compressed or there's too many effects and they turn into mush on record. I strive to keep it raw and live-sounding, like you are in the room watching the band play.

I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I don't think it's important whether I'm good copy or not. The two can go together, if that's your personality, but every person on this earth is unique.

If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions.

One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

I think the whole response to our art being so positive is that it rings true and it feels a unique thing and I feel that was the thing that we strive for in the beginning was to not conform to any preconceived notions of what we should be doing.

In this world, one thing you should definitely strive for is originality. Just be who you are, and be your own person. That's what will make you stand out.

None of us are perfect, but the truth is important and it is something we should all strive for.

I strive to destroy fear and judgment that once stifled me.

Integrity is something I strive for in every part of my life.

I think when I was younger, I strived for perfection. And now I strive for my imperfections because I think they're more interesting.

I think the music I make is true to my life. A lot of people can relate to it. It is real. I'm just saying it how it is - I don't sugar-coat it. If you are an ambitious person, you want to strive for more. I want to do it all.

I am definitely the same person I was when I finished 'The Impossible.' That's one of the things I really strive to keep.

We never go overboard and above people's heads. We strive to retain that energy, that spirit we've always had. We feel the more simple and original something is, the better.