Quotes About Authenticity

I'm definitely interested in taking on roles where I don't look like myself. But I'm not saying I'm going to go out of my way to play a disabled person in order to win an Oscar.

Working with Bruce Willis makes my career authentic. I may not get an Oscar, but I worked with Bruce Willis. That matters more to me.

The real road, to me, was within the actor, within myself, within my own personality. How much Jeffrey can I find, and how much of Jeffrey could I access? What parts of Jeffrey have I never used for Hank or for George or Oscar? - and that was a delight.

I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.

You never make movies for Oscars.

I built my work from within instead of satisfying a demand for sexualised and ostentatious clothing.

When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.

It's important for kids to know they can be themselves, and that it's OK to have dreams and goals they love and that may not be cool or popular to other kids.

I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.

If you live the way others want you to, you are called a nice guy. If you live the way you want, you are called selfish.

The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.

I've bleached my brows and things like that, but otherwise, I just let them be.

That's the secret to anything we write. You have to bring your experience to it. Otherwise, how do you expect anyone else to connect to it?

What gives my books authenticity is that I actually do what it is I'm writing about. I think the fact that I am in the autopsy room, I go to the crime scene and I do work in the lab gives my books this flavor that otherwise they wouldn't have.

What I hated was doing what somebody in LA thought Jeff Foxworthy ought to do.

I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing. I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.

I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced.

When the fans were watching my dad, you could never tell if this was real or is this fake, and that's what made him so special. Every ounce of energy went to being The Nature Boy.

On stage, we embrace every ounce of ourselves, we celebrate who we are, we are honest and live our truth - and we inspire people to do the same.

False news hurts everyone. It hurts our community; it hurts us as individuals.

I had heard so much negative talk about our generation, that we're slackers and young fogies, that I knew wasn't true of the people I know.

'Cars 2' is about a character learning to be himself. There's times in our lives where people always say, 'Well, you've gotta act differently. You should always be yourself.' That's the emotional core of the story.

From our music in general, we've always fought the idea that we had to fit into a box or fit into a certain category.

We wore blue jeans and T-shirts. Our music was our gimmick.