Quotes About Authenticity

I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can.

Fake is, like, the worst word you could possibly use to describe anything, you know?

I want to play women my own age, rather than artificially 'de-age' myself so that I can play women who are younger or much younger than I am. I want to grow into those kind of more mature parts, not try and keep them at bay for as long as I possibly can.

I like to think of myself as the corniest, most awful thing you could possibly imagine.

I went through a mod and goth-phase when I decided that I wouldn't ever be the bronzed beach-bunny. I started going as pale as I possibly could.

I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.

I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

I'm forever being told that I'm an odd-looking actress, so it's great playing parts where there's no vanity. You just look as rough as you possibly can!

How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.

Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.

I want to be as honest as I possibly can. I sleep better at night.

I'm as honest as I can possibly be when I write.

If I start trying to make a record for what I think could possibly get played on radio, I'm dead.

I know, people have had different things to say about Marvel, about how creatively free they are or not free they are, but for me, the rule has always just been stay as good as I can possibly be, and stay one step ahead of the curve, and stay unique, and stay myself. And they seem to like that.

I know that I'm very feminine and that I can pass in a lot of situations, but I think a lot of people's perceptions of me are also informed by my the pictures that I post online, which are as flattering as possible.

When you put up a personal post on social media, you are putting yourself out there because you are sharing something from your personal life.

Never blog just to put something out there. I would post only things that excite me.

I just believe that whatever I post should be my content.

People think I'm consuming all the time, based on my Instagram feed, but I know how to eat and how to pair. I might post the heaviest osso bucco of all time, but I'm not showing the carrots I'm having on the side rather than having a whole other big dish of something.

Sometimes there can be pressure to post, especially from your followers.

I see little girls at my meet-and-greets who are like, 'Kelsea! It's my first concert and I came to see you.' And I'm thinking, 'I don't want to post anything online that your mom would be mad at me for, because you're important to me.'

Sometimes I post something unwittingly that connects with women. But I never think, 'OK, let's take a shirtless picture for the girls.'

People tend to not post when they're at their worst, but I try to be as open as I can be with my fans.