Quotes About Authenticity

I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be.

If I know something's expected of me, I won't wear it or do it. It just seems boring.

If my life choices had to be predicated based on what was expected of me from a community on either side, that's going to make me feel really straitjacketed, and I don't want to feel that.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

I want to do action which is larger than life but has a touch of reality.

In order to create lasting security you must learn to stand in your truth.

I don't think I can create anything of lasting value unless it comes from the heart.

I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.

Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh.

I don't think Latino; I think like me. If that happens to be Latino, then I guess that's me. But it doesn't affect my comedy in any way.

And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.

I can tell how honest a joke is or how true a joke is by how fast the laughs come.

My real name is Lauren.

Even when I'm playing a lawyer or a doctor, I want to play a person. A human being.

When you lay your life out there, you want it to be as true as possible.

In life, and in basketball, if you lay the truth out there, people don't have to guess.

Everyone has different layers to who they are.

When not dressed as Conchita I am a man, and a lazy one at that.

Instead of trying to group people into something and have this one assumption, get to know someone for who they are. I guess a lot of people are really lazy to start getting to know people or make that effort.

I think a lot of people that don't know me would say that I lead by example, which I feel like I do. But at the same time, I'm someone who's always been very up-front with people. I'm gonna get straight to the point.

When I first started out, there were times I would dress or act in a way because I thought it was expected of me or that people would take me more seriously. But once I started leading in a way that was authentically me, that is when I really started to see success.

I don't know - the whole leading man, I don't buy it.

I am painfully honest, to the point where it often leads to fights. I am passionate.

You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.