Quotes About Authenticity

I'd make a lousy cop. I'd just wear it too close to my skin and wouldn't survive. I'll stick to acting.

I know and live with the real Dilip Kumar. He is a simple man, hard working, who has survived time.

I dont like being classed as a celebrity. Im a normal actor whos survived. I find the people at those parties are just there to be seen rather than to engage. That isnt me.

Surviving in music is the same as surviving in a place like Knowle West - sometimes you need to be low-key, but sometimes you need to make your presence felt.

What 'Survivor' is really about is the inescapability of your being yourself, even when you have told yourself you can be someone different for 30 days.

In 'Bigg Boss,' there were so many things that I didn't say and as a result, people thought I was a fake. I have not let it happen in 'Survivor.'

'Survivor' was not fixed. There's no way to fix 'Survivor.'

I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to the emotional core of me.

The iPhone is like 'omakase', the style of sushi where the chef chooses what you're going to eat, and might even tell you how to eat it - no wasabi allowed on this, no soy sauce allowed on that. Definitely no California rolls.

Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.

Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.

There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.

A lot of times, I think people feel that new plays are suspect, and actually, I don't know where that came from. I completely disagree with it!

I always suspend logic for emotion. If it feels real, or it feels like what I'm going for, we should abandon reality a little bit and go for that. I'm not a documentarian. We're not trying to shoot things for naturalism.

I'm not a media personality, I'm an actress. I want to protect that thing: the suspension of disbelief. The rest of it is just distraction.

I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.

I'm always suspicious of celebrities that write about their lives.

I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.

I would love to be on a show where I'm allowed to play a character that you're not suspicious of, from the get-go, and who's someone that you can just relax with, take in and like, right off the bat.

I could just sit back and get someone to spin my achievements, I suppose, but when I see others do it, I always think, 'Why are you telling me how successful you are?' I am always suspicious of those kinds of boasts.

I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

I'm not a writer on a mission, and I'm very suspicious of writers on missions, but I'm also not living a false life.

As someone responsible for my own fair share of marketing stunts, I am suspicious and cynical - I'll disclose that right up front.

I'm suspicious when I go to someone's house and everything is beautiful and perfect. Authenticity often means mistakes.