Quotes About Authenticity

Everybody talking about being afraid of being boring is boring. You have to go for the real substance of life after awhile.

With a gimmick, there isn't much substance. If you play to the crowd too much, it can go bad.

I wanted to be different and went in for roles with substance after my first film itself.

Sensationalism is entertaining, but substance is what matters.

I want to be taken seriously: I can cook, I do have qualifications, OK, I do make mistakes, but I want to show that on camera. I'm not perfect. I'm someone who works hard, who is serious about what they're doing. It's substance over style.

A lot of people talk, but they don't say anything. And people listen, and they don't absorb anything of substance.

I would rather write something that's authentic to me than something that'll be likely to get played on the radio but doesn't have any substance to it. People can see through that really quickly.

What I'd look for are roles in which the heroine's character has substance rather than just glamour.

What I have that's special in my music is substance. It's music that people can really relate to. I know I'm gonna rap something that somebody has already been through in their life, something that they will understand.

You can window-dress and promote a movie as much as you like but if the movie hasn't got substance and isn't an exciting movie, people won't watch it.

I like men of substance.

Patty Loveless is the big influence for me. Loving her music, loving how she wrote songs, loving the kind of songs she cut. A strong woman with true substance to her lyrics, but songs that just felt so good.

I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial.

There's a lot of music out there that's like, 'I'm so mad! I'm sad! I'm into skulls and crossbones and the color black,' and that's just meaningless and shallow. So much of metal is about that and it's hard to find metal that is substantial and meaningful in terms of its content.

I want to have something substantial to say or I'm just not going to say anything.

There's no substitute to actually being in the room and having people in the room feel the force of your audition. It's very hard to beat that.

Somehow, married or single, we'd rather anesthetize ourselves with love substitutes than go for the real thing, because let's face it: The real thing is pretty scary.

Pretentiousness was probably my substitute for actual confidence.

What I don't believe is that DVDs or HD broadcasts can be a substitute for the real thing.

Of course, there is no substitute for live performances.

With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.

I was tired of everyone saying that when you write about race in America, it has to be nuanced, it has to be subtle, it has to be this and that.

I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle.

We shall seek first to tell the truth rather than to study the subtle art of adjusting it to the circumstances of time and person.