Quotes About Authenticity

I don't think half my stuff would be funny if the audience didn't feel at least a little bit safe that it's not how I truly feel.

For me to act natural and real but also try to be funny while doing that is hard.

I think the more you hone your voice, take risks and talk about things that matter, the better chance you have of getting into the realm of the philosophers of stand up. But you have to be funny.

I think having funny characters is just one way of having three-dimensional characters.

If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare.

If a homeless person has a funny sign, he hasn't been homeless for that long. A real homeless person is too hungry to be funny.

Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.

Why must this be so mortifying? Oh, that's right. Because its my life.

Jesus girls! Wake up! If a guy wants to drain you of your energy, emotions, and life force he won't sparkle in the sunshine, he'll just marry you.

What is it? Tens, I can see the stick up your arse from here. I'm dying remember? Dying people don't have time for silly moods

...Don't you just hate a phony-looking stiff?" - Aunt Edna

I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it's not a lie.

I may not always be right, but when I am, I admit it

I m not funny, really m not !!! I just tell people the truth, and then they start laughing and say haha you are funny...but seriously m not!!!

He with the cleanest clothes isn't necessarily the cleanest.

We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them.

Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.

I am not fake, I am just to good to be true :-)

There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny.

There's nothing less funny than someone who looks cool. There's nothing more unappealing.

You have to be funny about it and honest about it. You can't leave yourself out of that mix. You have to be honest enough to say, I'm that messed-up one in the family.

You must recognize, embrace, and be honest about what is real for you today and allow that understanding to inform the choices you make. Only then will you be able to build the future of your dreams.

Taking back our light from those we've projected it onto opens the door to an unimaginable future.

Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true.