Quotes About Authenticity

If me believing helping others should come before Instagram posts is 'stupid'... you got me right.

It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them.

I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.

If a comic laughs at their own jokes, I don't like it. They shouldn't find it funny; they should seriously believe in this stupid thing they're saying.

I'll always just be stupid boy, and I'm happy with that.

That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

I don't hide or play stupid games.

I was pretty awkward when I was young, but I was never afraid of putting myself out there. I would say stupid things but then they would laugh at me and possibly find it endearing.

In movies, you get to explore parts of yourself that in real life, people shy away from, like looking stupid or embarrassing yourself or getting too angry, anything inappropriate. As an actor, you walk into those moments.

I'm definitely careful. I'm not reckless or stupid, but that's how I was raised, to not be stupid or immature in as far as trying to grow up too quickly or putting forward a certain image that isn't me.

It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.

I'm afraid that eating in restaurants reflects one's experiences with movies, art galleries, novels, music - that is, characterized by mild amusement but with an overall feeling of stupidity and shame. Better to cook for yourself.

I didn't stutter when I was reading lines in a script. When I got away from myself, I didn't have that problem.

I'm not really into style. I'm more into confidence or having something to say.

I dress myself, not to impress, but for comfort and for style.

I think there are very few people who have a real style, a real personality, and real beauty.

Style really comes down to what makes you feel good.

I think when people have the freedom to tell their own story rather than trying to be specific to a certain design or style, there's more freedom, and it ends up feeling more like home. Those spaces we see in magazines and on the Internet are beautiful, but if there's not that story there, then it's going to lack that feeling of home.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.

My style when I was 17 was very low-key with jeans, T-shirts, and Converse. I was signed to a major record label by then, so I had stylists helping me.

No, because I've never really changed my style that much.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.