Quotes About Authenticity

Be happy with who you are, and know that being you is the best thing you can do for yourself.

I find I don't need to be polished. I feel that you have to keep it real, and that's the best way to go.

I think the best advice I'd say to any actor when you do comedy is play it straight.

I think that's the best way to see things, especially this kind of play where there's no pyrotechnics, it's literally just people talking.

Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.

If I look at the message I'm portraying, I think it definitely is be who you are, but be your best you.

Sometimes, homely things are done for the best reasons in the world and thus achieve a beauty of their own.

I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.

I like to be in my birthday suit as much as possible.

If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.

The business is so upside down now. It's not just about the bling-bling.

The single most important thing you can do in business is to be yourself.

The old paradigm was pay to play. Now you get back what you authentically put in. You've got to be willing to play to play.

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.

That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside. There is no shade in that beauty.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn't change what I decide to do.

It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like.

You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.

Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.

Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them day after day.

A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.