Quotes About Authenticity

My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors.

The thing about Precious, she's so far from a Hollywood character. She's so honest and real, I definitely felt like I knew her.

I've been blessed to spend time with young people and help encourage an environment where it's comfortable for them to be who they are. That's precious for children.

The older I've gotten, the more I've gotten a little precious about music-related films as it comes to biopics. I kind of don't want to see it; I'd rather see a documentary. And this is just coming from me. I love music documentaries; I kind of don't want to see people embodying those people.

I think that being precious and rock and roll should never go together.

Life is too precious to worry about what other people are saying or what they think.

You just need to create and be open with that energy. The second that you are precious with it, it's almost like you showing the world you have a limited amount.

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

How precise you need to be when you're in a comedy, and the honesty you need and to have those two things meet up and have the execution just right, I always found very difficult.

Once you recognize that all documentaries are performance, it's not a matter of 'if' they should be performance. They are performance, and they are performance precisely where people are playing themselves.

People come to the theatre in search of a real encounter with other human beings, and we must give them what they come for. Our capacity to do that is the measure of being human. And if the price is that we sometimes say something not very pleasant - well, that's precisely why people want us, in the end: because we speak the truth.

Sometimes, there's a preconceived notion of how a scene or how a work should be delivered. And I see young performers sometimes try and deliver that, and it's not really true to their voice or who they are.

I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.

We're so bored of plastic, prime-time predictability.

There were certainly more conventional and predictable paths that I could have taken in life, but I believe in being true to oneself and following the thing that sets your soul on fire. For me, that is music.

I enjoy it when characters love each other. It's more interesting, actually - it's less predictable.

I prefer flat shoes and comfort: I feel more like myself.

It doesn't bother me to work with so much green screen. I prefer real settings obviously.

I am not looking for fame. I prefer to have a normal life.

I think people lie on the Internet. I would prefer to meet someone in person, and I need to have chemistry when we meet and spend a little time, and have a couple of dates.

I prefer fact to fiction.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

I would much prefer that they take me as I am, that way the experience is genuine between the both of us.

I'm still Sean that me mates went to school with, not Sean the film star. And that's the way I prefer to be.