Quotes About Authenticity

I've never been the guy to go for the celebrity girl. I've always liked regular girls, regular people, because I've always viewed myself as a regular person who just happens to be gifted in music.

At first, I felt like I was put into this box because I played hockey. I thought that I was viewed a certain way, and I shouldn't wear certain clothes. Finally, I stepped aside and said, 'That's someone else's creation of me. I can be feminine and be strong.'

Everyone has a mirror face that's so different from their natural face. And I think it's interesting, seeing the way people want to be viewed when they're putting themselves together.

You can manipulate the viewer in film. With theater, what you see is what you get.

If an actor can emotionally bond with the viewer, then it does not matter if he is handsome or ordinary looking.

I guess if you try to write with honesty and emotional truth, then that will resonate no matter what the age of the viewer.

If there's flat tires or bad food or rough lodging or zany people that we meet, we throw them up all on screen so that the viewer doesn't feel like they're watching a kind of sanitized, produced effort.

As an interviewer, I don't think you can dance around the subject. Certainly the interview subject knows if you are dancing, and the viewer knows that you are dancing. If it's a hard question, you just have to ask it.

I want to be honest about my faith, but not preachy, for my viewers and my readers.

If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.

If you don't take your clothes seriously, why should your viewers take you seriously?

Younger viewers have a very strong detector for what's real and legit and what's phony or pandering.

I'm not out to max my income. I think my viewers would call me on that right away if I did.

I think viewers realize that people are a lot more three-dimensional than TV has traditionally portrayed them, particularly in news.

My time online has shown me that the viewers will respond most to authentic storytelling.

I do my own stunts. You see someone like Graham Norton would have had a stunt double, but no, I give 100 per cent to my viewers.

I'm homemade. I upload my videos in my living room; I edit everything, and I upload on my laptop. And my viewers love that about me, and they get inspired and do it themselves.

I want viewers to relate to me on a different level, not just a sexual level.

I've known Jan, probably, very well for, well, for over a decade. And the passion that Jan just showed the viewers in that particular piece is very real.

I never want to feel more than the viewers. I'm not trying to be an automaton. It's like when you see people laughing on camera, and you don't find it funny as a viewer - it's an offputting experience.

I think my viewers want smart, honest programming. They don't want to be told what makes them feel good.

The best kind of marketing messages are the ones that don't seem like marketing messages. Because it means that the viewers' defenses are down.

There's a genuineness that I hope I offer to viewers.

For me, the biggest thing I've learned is how to be myself and the fact that viewers actually want to feel like they're getting to know you as a person. They value you because you're a reporter and you're bringing them new information, but they also want to feel like they get a sense of your sense of humor and what things you're interested in.