Quotes About Authenticity

I'm excited to play any character that is based in reality. And I'd be even more excited if I can add a comic element to my role.

'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.

Nobody knows the life of the working comic.

I still feel it's kind of weird to say, 'I'm a comic book writer.'

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

What eventually you find in comics is the only thing unique you can bring to a character who's been around for 80 years is yourself.

I feel like when you just say what the truth is, you can't really comment more than that.

I'll say I'm happy doing my thing. No one says 'no comment' anymore.

Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth.

I got one comment that I had a lot of double chins. I just laughed at it. I do have a double chin, so that's legit.

I get comments saying that I'm a leper, I control how my skin changes, I bleach my skin, my skin's burned. None of those are true.

I don't think anything that I have done has been forced by commerce exclusively.

I will do films I want to make. I will never make a film for commerce.

Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.

I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

I'm no longer interested in being in big commercial films.

I never really think so much about commercial success; I usually just think about records that move me, and 'Baby Got Back' was one that moved me.

I'm very hands on with my music - I do all the artwork and everything myself - and the songs I write aren't necessarily the most commercial.

There are some commercial artists that have number one after number one, and you go to their show, and the show's one-note. Yeah, they're all hit songs. But there's no emotion, because they're the same kind of hit songs, because they're what works at radio. That kills live shows for me.

The commercialization of dubstep isn't something I'm part of.

I really hate it when I see other bands selling their music to commercials.

At home in my room, I'm funny, but if I'm commissioned to be that, I don't feel very funny.

The more you try to look sexy, the lamer it is, so you just have to commit to the comedy.

For me, earnestness is the greatest crime an Englishman can commit.