Quotes About Authenticity

The best thing that I bring in my live show is that it's not scripted. It's more of a conversation with my audience. And that's what people like about the show - it's very real. There are mistakes and laughter.

I'm looking for conversations that will be meaningful with people that want to have meaningful connections with an audience.

I'm the kind of leader who would try to have honest and difficult conversations.

If actors are trying to convey, in a smart way, the context of the scene, that becomes too self-conscious.

Acting is about finding truth and finding the way to convey the truth.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to necessarily convey my own experience as an individual to the world.

Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.

I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.

Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.

Most people feel like they're out of step, so just have the conviction to go your own way.

It is not easy to pull off your shirt, bare your torso and go beyond it. It needs a lot of conviction. You have to be comfortable in your skin.

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.

The only way for something human to feel human is to convince others that it is.

When you constantly claim you are the best, people start to believe that. I see that happen a lot. You can convince a lot of people by talking, even if that has nothing to do with your actual performances. But that's not my thing.

As an actor, I need to convince the audience that the character that I'm playing is real, and the situation that this character is in is also real.

Over time, with my matches, I convinced both the fans and the coaches that my style was the best for me, and they understood who I am, and that is who I am today.

It is when I am convinced about my character that I can do justice to that role.

I think that's how any actor would make their performance convincing: by bringing an element of themselves into the character.

I would never play a character that wasn't true. It's not a moral thing; it's just that it's more convincing if it's a little bit like me.

Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you can keep it like that, the better for your work and your state of mind.

I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.