Quotes About Authenticity

At the end of the day, you just want to be yourself because people can see when you're not.

Be yourself. Be confident.

The thing that you have to do is... try to be yourself.

I grew up eating street tacos and burritos on the beach, so I like people who can eat and aren't afraid to show it.

Being with Kyra is so natural for me; it's the easiest aspect of my life. I know that I don't need a beach or room service to be happy.

I have this saying: They either want The Bean or they don't want The Bean. I just am my own thing. It works or it doesn't work.

As an actor, I am not comfortable with an artificial beard.

I never choose jobs because of what I think I should do. I want to feel something. And with 'Beast,' it was very much like that.

I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.

I don't feel like I'm in competitive with anybody. If I'm worried about beating somebody else, I'm not going to be the best version of me. It shouldn't be a competition because somebody else winning is not going to make me lose.

I am proud to have played so many non-urban characters because I feel the heart of real India beats in the non-urban areas.

It is beautiful to be what you are.

I'm not a beautiful person and I never have been.

I will say I would much rather play someone who isn't the most spellbinding beautiful person because I am not that person and I don't want to worry about my angles or how good I look on that day.

I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week. So I really couldn't see myself being anything else.

I am not trying to say that I am poor and that I don't like beautiful things. But I don't like luxury for luxury sake or in the sense of showing off luxury.

Beauty is not everything!

I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become.

I like to be human and not lose myself in becoming a mannequin, which people in showbiz are accused of.

Now I literally roll out of bed and put on whatever is there. I have really enjoyed being a boy this last year.

I love to roll out of bed and throw something on. I had this roommate in college who would get up almost 2 hours before class to do hair and makeup. That's not for me.

When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I got thrift-store everything.

What we're always looking for in students is who they are, and I think that's something that happens on the 'Sewing Bee.'

Beef is beef, you know. Beef comes, so Beef is real.