Quotes About Authenticity

If you deny the reality of your body or your life, you'll never be able to dress any of it well - even the parts you love. You have to see it all to work with any of it.

I think you need to have the guts to not use comedy. Often, the people that work in comedy use a joke to avoid contemplation.

Authenticity is what I've always gone after in my work, and I understand what feels emotionally right, instinctively. Working with actors has just come with experience.

No great work can be achieved by humbug. It is through love, a passion for truth, and tremendous energy, that all undertakings are accomplished.

I don't work with a stylist.

Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.

I am inspired when I see goodness in other people. I am inspired by hard work and honesty. And I am inspired by nature.

I am being ripped off, because I've never lied to the press. Just as much truth I bring to my work, a journalist should bring that much truth to their work.

I've been pretty transparent with all that I've done. I think my work speaks a lot for who I am. So, I don't think there's a particular thing I'd like them to know.

Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.

The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in front of strangers in the course of their work. Actors do.

To try to please people is an endless chasing of one's own tail. That's not very satisfying, so we do what we like and that satisfies us. When it does work out, its a bonus, really.

I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x with y in view - whether it's a reader, a prize or a sale.

I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy. Besides, I'm a regular guy in real life. I guess I just want to be reckless in my work.

I hate doing anything in offices. I either want to be out in the world or in my own environment - and it should be your own environment that you work in.

Being myself didn't work. Being someone else didn't work. Maybe I just wasn't meant to have friends.

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

Integrity is hard work. I do think the Internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform.

I'm in all of my work, and there's nowhere to hide when you make work.

I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.

Beware all enterprises that require new clothes.

She remembered who she wasand the game changed.

Expressing truth is hard work.

Don't always deprive yourself trying to please others