Quotes About Authenticity

We shouldn't be ashamed of getting people to click on content that we're proud of.

Basically, if I don't click with a person, I will never open up.

Home is where I climb out of my mecha-suit-of-a-poised-persona and power down.

There have been some wonderful climbing films, but for the most part, they are reenactments.

Clint Eastwood, to me, is Clint Eastwood. He's great at being Clint Eastwood. But, I don't know how to be that guy. I just don't know how to be one person.

Manscaping and all of that is not my thing. I'm more of the Clint Eastwood kind of guy.

There's no rule that says you have to make records constantly, like clockwork, to continue being who you are.

I'm not a clone of anybody. I'm Rakesh Jhunjhunwala.

We want to sound like a band you can't clone or even categorize. We like to throw everyone off.

I don't want to clone anyone, not even myself.

I'm not dripping with charisma like many of my friends are. But I do have candour, which is close.

Like, if you get close enough to me you'll see how I really am.

All my close friends are normal dudes and then I will hang out with some girl who is a musician and everyone thinks that's what it's all about.

In America, they often don't know where I am from. The important point is the audience should not be able see through it. It should be so natural that your close friends may even think that you are not a great actor.

I've done a lot of shows over a long time, and I've lost my voice on plays before, and it's because I've been thinking closely about what I'm doing with my voice. Babies can scream all day and never lose their voice because they just mean it. As long as you mean it, then it carries you through. It's do it or don't.

I always found that the closer I got to who I really am, on stage, the more they responded to it.

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.

The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is.

I need to create an environment where I can be my best self, and that means being unapologetic about saying no to things that don't serve me or move me closer to my purpose and the things that I care about the most.

The people I'm inspired by and I listen to are all ballsy, and I feel like I'm closer to an artist when they're open and honest.

Every time I decide not to do a commercial film, a masala film, I'm closer to myself.

Art cinema is easier to do as situations in it are closer to real life.

They accuse me of having a hard hand, but people closest to me know that is not the nature of my heart.

I cry all the time, I just don't cry in front of other people. Only those closest to me, and even that's hard.