Quotes About Authenticity

Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from.

I want to portray myself as myself.

I don't know what story y'all trying to get out of me. I don't know what image y'all trying to portray of me. But it don't matter what y'all think, what y'all say about me because when I go home at night, the same people that I look in the face - my family that I love, that's all that really matter to me.

I don't try to portray some lifestyle that I'm not living.

Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can.

Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.

I don't want to try to sell myself or portray something that I'm not.

I find it quite hard to connect with the songs where I portray myself as this clumsy, adorable, love-struck man-child.

For me, I've always wanted to portray roles that are empowering. Also, being empowering doesn't necessarily mean being strong all the time.

I like to portray things as close to the bone as possible.

To be able to be a good actress and portray other people's stories, you have to be true to yourself.

It's hard to portray your personality in 140 characters. And so, at times, I tend to be very cynical. And I don't think that comes across very well on social media.

Country music listeners really like genuineness, and I hope that's what we portray, and I think that's what we do.

When it comes to how I portray myself online, I'm trying to be as real as I can and show people every side of what I do and not just put up selfies online of me in full done-up make up and stuff.

Everybody wants to portray the bad boy, the Johnny Manziel stuff, but I love the game of football. There's no doubt about that.

For the record, I don't really hate myself, but I do hate the way I portray myself online.

I have a strong personality - I know who I'm outside my work, and I'm nothing like the characters I portray.

People think I am confident, natural. I hope I portray that on-screen.

People do things on Instagram and put on a front and try to live a life that they may not really want to live, or don't truly believe in. And that's the life that they portray. That's not the real them. We all have to be more aware of what is that's really happening inside. Are we really standing for what we believe in?

I never looked at it like I'm one of the most respected, but I always tried to stay to who I was. The way that I am in my music is the way that I am. I'm just not tryna portray nobody but Brad, period!

I think there will be times where I need to be more serious, and I'll show that. I'll show an intensity that I think a lot of people can't really show or portray.

In Hollywood, there is one dominant voice. It is a white, male, straight gaze. When I talk about positive portrayals of black people and women, I'm saying complexity. I'm not saying goody-two-shoes, everything's okay. No. The positive view of me is to see me as I am: the 'good,' the 'bad,' the gray. That is a positive portrayal.

As an actor, what I can do is tell the truth. At least, I hope I can tell the truth - a dramatic truth, but still an honest portrayal.

I see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist.