Quotes About Authenticity

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

Action is only really compelling when it reveals character - character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake.

I don't chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody.

I don't have the looks to compete at a bar, and I'm not that funny. So the last thing I want is to be in a situation where that's what I'm competing on. I'd rather be on OkCupid or Match, where I can write a 300-word essay about myself that's really good.

You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

I'm more of a purist competitor, and I enjoy the fighting aspect of it, but people enjoy my personality, and they enjoy that I tell the truth.

I chose to share my life online, so I can't really complain about it. There's not much that's off limits.

I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play.

Positive characterizations are complex characterizations. That's all we need to know. They shouldn't be saccharine. They shouldn't feel like medicine.

In my experience, when you're writing, you want the truth, and you don't want to be apologetic in any way. But there is something in writing, the complexity of it, that works against that aim.

Well, actually, I'm a bisexual lesbian in a man's body... but it's more complicated than that.

It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.

I know that Liz Meriwether likes to keep things as honest and complicated as life can be, which is really fun for all of us.

For my beauty routine, it's kind of complicated. It's not easy at all. I like being natural, but natural is not really natural. To be natural, you need to have really good skin. This is really important.

I just make my music. It's not too complicated.

When people see me in something and say, 'That's just you - that's not acting,' it's the best compliment I can get.

I usually get a lot of compliments from people as they can't believe I'm the same person when they meet me.

If you compose a song from your soul, it will come out well.

I'm still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.

If you just want ten songs to fit somebody else's script, then I'm not really the composer for that.

Never compromise yourself.

As long as I don't have to compromise my art, that's the most important thing. It doesn't matter if I'm famous or not, it's all about the music.

I never want to compromise my act just to get a laugh.

I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.