Quotes About Authenticity

I produce but I'm producing work that I can be in.

Im a B-list celebrity trying to give it an honest look. They see me do actual work. ... I try to be the viewer with a microphone.

There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible.

Sometimes it's just rejecting stereotypes, sometimes it's creating work. Sometimes it's just blocking out the noise.

I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book.

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work.

As long as my work continues to speak for itself outside of what I look like, I'm okay.

I'm a quiet person, I'm not a flashy art world person. I'm in the studio in the middle of nowhere. There's sheep and fields. The work has to be authentic in that way.

I'd much rather work with people that are tricky and difficult than people that just say yes to everything.

We live in an age of publicity and hype. There's something about success that dehumanizes you, whereas failure reminds you of who you really are.

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

Part of what I do comes from the fact that I don't know any jokes to tell. And when I do they're really flat and don't work.

I work without commercial considerations.

Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.

You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.

I am disappointed by this controversy surrounding A Million Little Pieces because I rely on the publishers to define the category that a book falls within and also the authenticity of the work.

What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves.

I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.

I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

Your work speaks for you.

My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the industry has put in place for "women directors."

Every song that has been a hit for me has been honest and truthful. I have to believe that same formula will work on this (television) show. It has to be believable and honest.

I don't want to discount the beautiful work that the fashion houses do, but somehow, just focusing on what you're wearing feels reductive.