Quotes About Authenticity

Writing is better if it's kept simple. Every sentence doesn't need to have perfect noun/verb agreement. I've said 'ain't' on the air. Because I sometimes use 'ain't' when I'm talking.

I never write down to my audiences. I respect honest sentiment and honest pratfalls.

For writers: don't hold back. Be weird. Be sentimental. Be melodramatic. Take the risk of being not-cool, not-hip.

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.

I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.

There's this idea out there that, had I not been trans, the leaks and stuff would never have happened. But to my mind, those are two completely separate things. Had I been out, I think I still would have been attracted to the military, but I would have been more comfortable and gotten along with people better.

I became acutely aware of how important it is to separate the difference between who you are and who the character you're playing is.

I tend to try and really separate my work from my real life.

There's no separation anymore between who I am and what I create.

I have an allergy to sequels and remakes in general.

Funny is when you're serious.

I do a lot of serious stuff, but I'm not a very serious guy.

I simply take serious issues seriously, but I do not take myself seriously.

The people I respect the least are the ones that take themselves way too seriously.

Actually, I think it's quite sensible not to take yourself too seriously.

I've never taken myself too seriously, I'm not into that.

We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.

I never took myself too seriously.

You don't have to take yourself so seriously all the time.

We take our endorsements seriously.

Apparently, I don't want to take myself too seriously.

Now I find seriousness to be rather ridiculous.

The best sermons are those that are lived.