Quotes About Authenticity

Credibility is someone else's idea of what I should be doing.

I don't have credibility, I'm a comedian.

It's hard to know now who, if anyone, in the media has any credibility.

It's funny; we never had anything like credibility. Even though we all have some sort of punk-rock background, but so what? I really don't care about that. What's credibility anyway? Who has credibility?

I want to be real and relatable, because if I am not, then I lose my credibility among audiences.

That is the beauty of doing something when you're older. It doesn't matter what anyone else says because you're not doing it to build credibility.

If you believe that the greatest challenge you've got is credibility, then the way you get that is you earn it, right? That's not something that any set of policy makers can bestow.

With all comedy, you try to ground it in credibility and reality.

I'm looking for personal credibility as an entertainer.

I'm a pop artist, and that's what I'll always be. I don't want to be a 'credible artist.'

You don't have to be singing songs about angst and pain to be credible.

Just because we're a girl band doesn't mean that we're not credible artists.

A creep is someone who claims he's one thing but he's actually another.

If a documentary crew were to follow me around, they'd probably think they were making a film about the saddest person in the world.

I can speak for myself personally, I loved ECW. I loved everything about it. I loved the crew, I loved the fans, the style, working there.

Fans always say they laughed and they cried while reading my books. And I tell them that I laughed and cried while writing them.

The thought of being a boy makes me cringe. I just couldn't do it.

'Bridget Jones' is meant to be a funny night out, but with emotional truth. I wanted to make it a classic that you can pick up in 10 years and not cringe over.

I hate eating food on camera - I always cringe afterwards!

I'm not a crisis actor.

I always felt like if I lived in true authentic self-expression and lived in service and in support of many other people, I would be exempt from having to deal with yet another crisis in my life. I was wrong.

If a critic doesn't think I can act, it's because I'm not acting. That's me - and that's the way I act.

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

I have never said anything critical about Ozzy that he didn't say about himself many times.