Quotes About Authenticity

I really don't believe in the word 'selling out.'

I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.

If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves.

If your heart's not into what you're selling, you're not going to make it.

I need to make money, but I don't want to be another guy selling his McDonald's to the pop market.

Selling out is when you do something that you don't naturally want to do.

People would expect me to be this ditzy, bubblegum-pop girl. I was selling myself short.

The biggest affront to any audience is if you feel like someone took something you love and is selling it out.

No one can establish what selling out is.

I'm just really bad at selling anything I don't actually use or like.

I don't believe in either selling or marketing myself.

I would never be a sellout, but you can never be a sellout to kids. Kids is kids!

I don't want to be a sellout.

Whatever I do, whether it sells or not, at least I mean it at the time and I'm honest about it. Which I think is the only way to be.

Guys are really lucky. We become our authentic selves the older we get.

We need to be our natural selves.

I can't be everything to everyone. Send me your specs.

I do what I feel I know how to do and don't do things that I don't. I'm a product of my sensibility.

So I never wanted to be an actor anyway, so I only do the films which appeal to me and my sensibility.

I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.

Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.

We have to be really sensitive to making sure were not creating any stories that don't feel like they're ready to be told... We have to make sure we're getting the right story and the right content from the talent we work with.

I don't mean to be so sensitive, but that's just who I am. And I'm not afraid to admit it.

I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to rethink this whole thing!'