Quotes About Authenticity

Each show is a very honest portrayal of how I'm feeling that night. It can go off in any direction. The show is different every night, and that makes it much more exciting. Every evening is unique.

I don't know that I'm as conservative as portrayed.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

I am fine playing 'Law & Order' and even the 'Jurassic' movies to be straight up, as far as the characters being portrayed there, but I never want to stay in straight-up land too long. I always wanted to do something where the character's world gets to be explored.

Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward in mainstream media... Black people are always portrayed to be cool or overly dramatic, anything but awkward.

I'm portrayed as this tough broad, but I'm not.

Young people deserve to be portrayed with depth.

The characters I've always been drawn to are real and flawed. That's not how women have always been portrayed.

I feel it's very important for an actor to believe in the character that he/she is playing and do full justice to it in order to convince others that you are the character you are portraying.

I'm just being P.J., that's the number one thing, I'm just being me. Like I'm not portraying something or acting or putting on something that I wouldn't put on every day in my life or doing anything that I wouldn't already be doing.

My emotions kind of shine through my face, so whatever I'm thinking is what I'm portraying as well.

I've been involved in the deaf community for years, and my friends in the community that are actors or performers get very frustrated when they see hearing people portraying a deaf role.

Something 'Drag Race' is really good at is portraying us as artists but also human beings. And normal human beings don't know everything. They don't have all the answers.

When you're portraying someone, whether they're real or fictional, you have to find some kind of hook where it feels real to you because if you don't believe it yourself, then no one else is going to believe it.

I like being me and portraying myself in a certain way that makes me feel comfortable and confident.

Portraying a real-life character can be quiet challenging.

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

I don't know how to pose or anything.

I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.

In my experience, growing up in Brooklyn and all that, the real tough guys didn't act tough. They didn't talk tough. They were tough, you know? I think about these politicians who try to pose as tough guys - it makes me laugh.

I do feel pressure to look good. But that's just not going to happen, because I have a double chin, and I can't pose. It's such a struggle.

Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.

What's important to me is love, especially that. What's important to me is growing and evolving. But ultimately, what's important to me is being real and being authentic. I've spent enough time in my life holding poses, playing roles.

I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.