Quotes About Authenticity

I'm not a trained singer, I'm not a trained dancer.

I'm not much of a dancer.

I think by now everyone knows I am a terrible dancer, but I am an equally terrible singer.

I'm a terrible dancer.

I am a bad dancer.

I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.

What I'm bringing to the pop table is that I'm not pretentious.

When you bring the darkness to the table, it doesn't rule you or hurt other people, but when we keep it secret, it's dangerous.

I've seen a lot of good things and a lot of the bad of what Hollywood can bring. At the end of the day, I've found that when you try and fit in, that's a way to go crazy; you kind of lose yourself. I'm sometimes the different one at the table, but I don't care.

I'm not a big fan of table reads or sitting around a table and reading a script. I'd rather do it on set and do it for real.

I felt more comfortable playing other people than being myself, when I was a kid. And then, the tables turned. Through my performances, I've become more comfortable with who I am, and then I just bring more of myself into the people that I play.

I refuse to discuss tabloid rumors.

I consider myself allergic to gossip and tabloids, and go out of my way to avoid them.

I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.

I just don't buy the tabloids.

When 'Apollo 13' appeared as an opportunity and I began to tackle that in as authentic a way as I possibly could, I really became enthralled by the philosophical side of space travel and why we need to explore - what it means to us here on Earth - all of those things. I became a huge proponent.

I won't tackle something like furries, because there's nothing new to say. Also, I won't do anything that I think will put my life at risk.

It's really odd, but whatever we do and whatever style we might tackle, we always sound like us.

Comfort is always a priority, but that doesn't mean, just for the sake of comfort, I will wear some silly stuff and make myself look tacky.

The fact that we are playing Latinos does not mean that you have to be shouting 'fiesta,' 'taco,' or talking in the same way most Latin characters do in American television.

The way America sees Mexico, if they have any sense of it, is like Taco Bell. Our countries are neighbors, and the only hard food to get in America is true Mexican. It's impossible to find, even in L.A. Why is that?

Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it's not real at all.

The John McCain tactic of praising Obama as a great American and great senator 'with whom I disagree' is a loser. You've got to call him out as what he is - a fraud and a disaster.

I rejected being a lot of things that I grew up in, and yet I didn't. I got all my tactics from where I grew up... I can talk about all the people in those environments more than I can talk about the teachers at Juilliard or anyone else.