Quotes About Authenticity

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

I always thought it's way more important to be funny or to be honest than to look any certain way

I never leave my house. Then I don't have to put a bra on, and I don't have to change my pants.

I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.

She didn't need to go to acting school to learn that the essence of acting is to act like you're not acting.

I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.

It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world

Why can't I say anything normal?

I never know how much of what I say is true.

I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.

The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

If I book a hotel it's actually very funny. It's very nice to be a genuine Mr Smith.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.

I like seeing what the comedian thinks is funny, not just what they think I'll think is funny.

I'm funny. I'm a comedian. I'm not a clown.

I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.

Just because I rock doesn't mean I am made of stone.

I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.

Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real.

Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys.

It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid.