Quotes About Authenticity

He's a very natural chap. The public David Essex is the same as the private one. He's laid-back, charming, funny. There's no side to him.

I never met a dollar that could change me. Been the same guy since day one.

I never wear hair and makeup in my day-to-day, I usually look crazy.

If I'm not authentic, I might as well as be dead.

If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.

I believe if someone is authentic, they shouldn't have to advertise. If you can really talk to the dead, people are going to hear about it.

I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.

When it comes to the Internet, people like dealing with people.

When you are playing someone who is dealing with issues on a really personal level, if you don't bring your own issues into the equation, it's not going to feel really personal to the people watching it.

When I go to the movies, I want to see a human being dealing with their lives. That's all I ask.

Be true to yourself, pick something that really matters to them and is dear to them.

You want to go to your deathbed saying, 'I didn't sell out.' But it's a tough business to keep to what you believe in and get through and do well.

I am not into this old-school way of doing things, where you kill characters, and you bring them back, and then you kill them again, and then you bring them back, and their deaths mean nothing.

What is exciting is taking back the excitement of being able to debut something to an audience in exactly the way you want to.

It's not essential for me to have a big debut week; it's not essential for me to have big radio records.

If you look at 'Mad Men,' it's set in the wrong decade. The style of Mad Men is really the 1950s, not the 1960s.

You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

I cannot deceive my people.

Do not be deceived by impostors.

In love, I've been a deceiver. But I realized being honest is so much easier than lying and being deceitful.

The Internet can be deceiving. Don't believe everything your read. Or you see.

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

I think you can decide how much of yourself you're willing to make public.