Quotes About Authenticity

You have to search for the best writer - I'm not saying I'm the one, but it's a bad idea to just find the person who is a copycat of Stieg Larsson.

If you're telling a story, and somebody is going to come out badly, it better be you.

I was very different from other badminton players. I did not bring badminton home. I wouldn't eat, sleep, drink badminton or talk about it to friends.

I don't do the show business lifestyle, you'll never see me rolling out of parties with a goody bag in my hand. My night out is a night in, with friends round for dinner.

With this job people want so much from you and of course I understand, but if you don't keep that back, then what have you got left? If you auction off parts of your life you are left with nothing but a bag of money and no soul.

I was really sensitive because people would say they thought I was a boy or call me a boy and stuff like that. I always had my hair back and, like I said, baggy clothes. So it was kind of sad. I didn't know what to do about it, and I didn't know what I was doing wrong because I was just being me.

I love beautiful clothes, shoes, and bags like everyone else. However, I do not put a lot of emphasis on who I wear and how much my clothes cost. If it's a label, it's a label. If it's not, it's not.

I'm still bald, I just wear a toupee.

I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.

Misquoting drives me bananas.

Everyone's always like, 'Be your best self!' And that drives me bananas, because when you're not, it makes you feel really bad.

It's a big shame, because 'Trixter' in my mind were what a real rock n' roll band is all about.

Idles are the best band in the whole world.

Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.

I love what I do and the music I make and the bands I've done, especially Fall Out Boy. I also love what I love, and I don't care if other people like it.

When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.

If the crowd wants me to go out there and bang out - and that's not something that I do - then they need to go watch somebody else.

I have declined projects made under big banners because I didn't have much to do in them.

The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.

There are actors who don't get out of their Barbie Doll avatars, but that's not who I am.

Being Australian is a lot more than saying 'g'day mate' and 'throw a shrimp on the Barbie.'

I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.

We like that when girls look at us, they don't see perfect little blond-haired, blue-eyed Barbie dolls.

I always play barefoot. I can't play with shoes on.