Quotes About Authenticity

Sometimes, we want Asians in the media, but we don't want them to talk about being Asian. For me, that's interesting because I'm from Asia. If you want me to be on television but I can't be Asian, I'm not being true to myself.

You don't get taken seriously by asking someone to take you seriously. You've got to show up and own it.

I think you kind of lose the human aspect when you make things too perfect.

I want to live all aspects of my life, not just acting.

I want people to see themselves in a person. I never want someone to aspire to be someone else.

There's no person I aspire to be. I'm just doing my own thing and seeing what happens - not looking to something and trying to be that.

I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me.

When people assume that you're one way and you're not that way at all, it's hard.

I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.

I never assume anyone will see or like things I do, honestly!

I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

I'm never going to be an athlete, never going to be running triathlons - I'm not that person.

My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.

I try to act with my whole body and, for better or worse, this is the face that's attached to it.

For podcasters, people are just being themselves in a public fashion. So when someone is attacking a podcast, they're really attacking the person, because the person is the podcast. So I think that's why podcasters take it to heart. It's a very personal form of media, probably the most personal form of media.

What I try to do, what I attempt to do, is say things that I mean at least at an emotional level.

When the material written is very good then half of your work is done by the writer itself. When there's a well-defined character written, then the attempt is to be as honest to the material as possible.

I don't work with anybody I don't like, just for the attention.

I'm attracted to music made by people who let themselves be emotional. They really care about what they do, and we believe in what they say.

The roles that I always get attracted to are roles where the material is based on an actual person.

I'm just attracted to people for who they are on the inside.

I don't play an attractive game. That's fine with me.

I'm not exactly Don Draper when it comes to physical attractiveness.

People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.