Quotes About Authenticity

'The Lunchbox' is the kind of cinema that is true to its word and not cluttered or corrupted by some of the mainstream pre-requisites. I love the way I make movies, but there are certain stories that need to be told in a certain way, and 'The Lunchbox' is that movie, and I'm so proud to present this movie.

I have always believed that love is what helps you develop into the best person you are. It's a selfless emotion, but people usually follow the corrupted version.

Let's unbutton the corsets and see what's really going on, I say.

Yes, I would love to step outside the costume drama category and play a young urbanite, something closer to who I am.

I like a character, not a costume - the idea of putting on clothes and you become someone else.

I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that.

I was never a chiffon and satin person. I am always a cotton person. It's just the way I am.

If it's Saturday night, and you're sitting on your couch watching 'Showtime at the Apollo,' then you're not a man's man.

The process of coming out, as much as other people want to couch it in terms of politics, it's a very personal journey.

You can't kid the public. When they see me they see I'm just a kid off a council estate - no more, no less.

I went to a counselor for years, and it wasn't the kind of counseling to help you - it was the 'Let's make you straight' type - but counsellors can help.

Unscrupulous writers often count on the fact that most people don't bother reading footnotes or tracking down citations.

It's probably easier and cheaper to counterfeit hundred-dollar bills than it is to counterfeit Bitcoin.

Posturing is counterproductive. Posturing only works if things are screwed up.

I have a confession to make - I truly love country music.

When you're playing country music, you have to tell the truth.

I love country music because it's honest - and I'm a terrible liar.

Lyrically, country music is the most satisfying music for me.

Country music has always sort of been country music.

By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.

You don't change country music; it changes you.

Country music is who I really, really am deeply.

What I consider country music doesn't make it the end all be all, but if you ask me my opinion, that's what you're going to get.

Back when I first started in country music, you did it because you loved it, because it definitely wasn't where the big money was.