Quotes About Authenticity

I was never interested in 'making up' games when I was little. I wanted to create something real.

Everyone wants me to be this political person... I'm not Malcolm X.

I feel so much more comfortable that I've ever been. I've felt male as far back as I can remember.

I've lived my whole life exactly the way I've wanted to. Being gay, being white, being male, it doesn't matter to me. They're all things I'm born with.

I have never told a lie or modulated my natural voice... I can't help what people think sounds male or female.

I'm not a malicious person.

A while ago I said that, 'You know, I like a guy - he doesn't have to be all rich and famous - he can be normal.' And I remember I was walking in the mall, and this guy was like, 'Tyra, I'm normal. I live with my mama. I ain't got a car and I ain't got a job! I'm real normal.' And I'm like, 'That's not normal - that's a loser!'

Sometimes the manager says one thing and does another thing!

There are managers who always say what people want to hear. I think that's not good.

After I won Miss Universe, my managers started telling me I have to start putting on less makeup.

I think an artist who has it in their heart to do or say something, they'll say it. It's not something that's mandatory, but it will come out.

I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

I am not a manipulative person.

We north-easterners are less manipulative and less complex and people living there are much happier than the rest of the country.

Just working on a character and his mannerisms, but not looking the part, is not my thing. It is your duty as an actor to be honest to the character.

The film-school mantra is that if you don't tell your own stories, nobody will.

I try to keep it authentic and I try to keep it real, that has been my mantra from age 40 onwards.

Everybody is so anti-aging, but I don't want to look younger than I am. Our face is a map of our life; the more that's there, the better.

I consciously did not want to put a sub-Mr. Bungle band on the map. I don't think the world needs that.

My Maria on stage definitely is a real natural part of who I am, but obviously I can't walk around as that girl. You know what I mean? It's definitely an alter ego, but it is part of who I am, it is who I am, it is my life.

I wanted to set the story straight and really let people know what it's like and what me and my Marines went through.

You can't believe your own marketing.

I think that with marriages, people have to understand that you have to look at your marriage and understand what is needed in your marriage - not what people think your marriage should be or what people want your marriage to be.

I have many that wants to, let's say, marry me. But I always tell my mother that the day I have to ask myself, 'I love this man?' means I don't love him.