Quotes About Authenticity

It's hard for me to lie, I'd stumble with my words if I tried to lie.

The most common reason we stumble into the delusion of powerlessness is that we're afraid of what other people would do or say or feel if we were to act as we wanted.

I think we live in an entertainment world where performers like to flaunt how great they are. The Conchords don't do that. Even when they stumble onstage, people like it.

I like women who don't wear too much make-up. Natalie Portman is naturally stunning, and so are Charlize Theron and Kate Bosworth.

I'm not a stunning woman.

I could take my grandma and put her in a cape, and they'll put her on a green screen, and they'll have stunt doubles come in and do all the action. Anybody can do it. They're relying on stunt doubles and green screen and $200 million budgets - it's all CGI created. To me, it's not authentic.

Someone actually asked me once if I used coming out as a publicity stunt. It's cool that we live in a time when being gay could be seen as helping your career.

When I started to trust myself to be an actor, and to be considered that way and consider myself, that is when people started to see me in that way because that was the truth then, as opposed to me being a stunt girl going, 'Please see me as an actor, please see me as an actor!' when I didn't see myself that way.

It's the little added bonus of realism that makes the difference between an adequately done stunt and a really convincing one.

I don't do my own stunts, but I do my own fighting. I don't consider fighting to be a stunt.

The main thing is to keep it simple, keep it real, be honest and pull no stunts. You can't forget where you started and came from.

I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it.

I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it.

It looks better when you do your own stunts, because seeing somebody's face when they're doing them is fun for the audience.

After doing a bunch of movies as a stuntman, I realized that being a stuntman, you are in the shadow of the actor, and they don't get to see your true ability, and I wanted people to see that it was really me doing those stunts, and it was really my true abilities.

I'm kind of hard to double, but I did have one guy for a while as my double. I kind of like to do my own stunts, though, because it's just the overall experience. Sometimes you have to step aside when the stuff gets really dangerous, but I feel like sometimes you have to do your own stunts to make the role seem real.

I think you only have to pull stunts if the content of your music is meaningless.

I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.

I would rather be stupid than pretend to be intelligent.

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

Make yourself look really stupid so you don't feel bad doing something a little stupid.

You can't think about what other people think. You just can't. It's stupid. You've got to look inside yourself.

I am trying to be a girl who is real and has an opinion. Might say stupid things but not scared of men, and for me that's important.

You can be sincere and still be stupid.