Quotes About Authenticity

I don't like seeking all the attention. When you start doing stuff like that, it gets into your head, you are not being yourself.

My belief is that you live your life by example, and not by a caption on a magazine!

You don't have to sacrifice who you are to follow your beliefs.

I love being a comfortable person, but I'm very open. I'm not ashamed of myself and my beliefs.

As an actor, I like my films to be believable.

I always try to write about believable people.

Make your characters believable, and your reader will believe what they believe.

If the goal is to be believable when you're acting, I've got the best idea of what that believability might look and feel like. And because you need a normal guy in a comedy so that the eccentricities can pop, that's a good part for me.

The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

I don't worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable.

The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

In 'Letters from Iwo Jima,' there were times when I told Eastwood, 'This is just not believable.'

As an actor, you have to be able to put yourself into the character since your job is literally making the character and the situation he is in believable.

I like everything to be natural... believable.

I've always believed in trying to be as open as possible. I think it almost comes with the job - if you can bare your emotions, it makes for better acting.

Everything is pre-taped these days, but I'm a believer in, 'If you can't do it live, don't do it.'

I'm a strong believer in just doing your thing. No matter what.

I am a strong believer to follow your own path, no matter what people think.

One of the things I learned early on was the system of believing: you have to believe in what you say. The camera is the arbiter of truth; it's the all-seeing eye that can pick out discrepancies. You can't lie to the camera. You must believe in what you're saying, or the audience won't believe you.

Now I am at the point people are believing in my music, I couldn't live with myself if I didn't talk about what I believe in.

I've never felt as though I didn't belong, I just acted as though I did.

I don't care about being a literary personality - that doesn't appeal to me, especially because the literary world doesn't appeal to me. I actually don't feel like I even belong in it. If this was high school, I would be sitting with the Goths, looking at everyone, being like, 'Whatever.'

I belong to a non-filmy background, that is where my friends are from too.

I just can't belong to a genre, because I don't know what I would want it to be.