Quotes About Authenticity

A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.

I'm not one of those actors who wants to live in some kind of dark character and wants to live in the darkness so much that no one around me has any fun.

I remember one episode trying to be really gassed about The Darkness and thinking, 'This just feels really forced.'

You know what actors are like. You can sometimes be like, 'Darling, darling, we love each other,' but you don't really know them.

I like my face sans make-up - a dash of lipstick and a little mascara.

You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.

I don't date celebrities.

My concept of a perfect date, really, is just as long as conversation is fun, and you can be yourselves and feel comfortable around each other.

I want to date someone who likes who I am as a person and not what I do for a living.

I've never gone on a date... If I've ever had a man in my life, it's because I know him well, and he really means something to me.

The men who really get repelled by what you're wearing are a little shallow, and you probably don't want to date them anyway.

If a character's suddenly spouting information that's supposed to bring you up to date, it can seem artificial or contrived.

I think just... never date anyone who doesn't accept you, and don't change for them. They aren't going to change for you.

I thought, if I was going to date an actor, I wanted a real actor.

I had a lot of people that told me, 'Oh you're dated, or you're this or you're that or you need to be more this,' and it's kind of funny that when I stopped listening to all of that and just wrote from a place of truth everything started to fall into place for me.

In a lot of movies, you'll see people on crazy dates, and you're like, 'No one would ever do that!'

You have to connect on emotion not logic. People go on dates and it becomes a CV exercise. Logic is someone asking 'what do you do for a job?' when you should ask 'why do you do that? What is it you enjoy?'

I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.

I'm definitely old-school when it comes to dating. I'm not into the 'game' so much. If I like you, I'll confront you and be open about it. Then I expect you to come after me.

I haven't been brought down because people are focused on who I'm dating, what I'm eating, or what handbag is the best handbag - that's so cheap to me. But if others want to open up about their personal lives, that is their choice. It's not for me to judge.

I wrote 'Kamala and Maya's Big Idea' because I don't want my daughters to think in euphemisms.

It's daunting to play a real living person.

I feel like I've mastered Dave East. For a long time I was trying to figure out who I was and what sound I wanted to come with.

You can write 'little beast' if you want, but my name is David Ferrer.