Quotes About Authenticity

Being an actress is not about waddling around grinning on demand.

I don't have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.

It's not just about looking shocked if the scene demands it. It's about feeling that emotion. You can't lie to the camera, because it captures everything. This is what I have learnt over the years.

Not a Republican, he's not a Democrat, he's not an independent. Trump is Trump.

There's nothing wrong with working with no artist from any type of demographic, but you've still got to maintain what you do on whatever track it is.

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.

You can't deny who you are, so you might as well be yourself in the most authentic way.

You are who you are, why should you deny your past?

The one curse in America is that we deny who we really are and what we like.

To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.

Personally, I don't ever want to depend on makeup to feel beautiful.

I feel like, as an industry, we've gotten too dependent on source material originated in other mediums.

I love people who dress how they feel and change it depending on the day.

I choose what to wear depending on how I feel and what I'm comfortable in. That's when you look your best.

I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that.

The way you perform really depends on the way you live your life. It's not two separate things.

Your fashion depends on who you are and you should wear clothes according to who you are. You should also be comfortable in what you wear.

If you're saying you're epically depressed in a song, you better be able to back it up. You better be able to talk about it in a smart way with someone who comes up to you after a show and is looking for help.

I've never really been afraid of how people were going to define me, as long as I didn't write some cheaper song because people like that I'm depressed.

Not only was I really, really depressed when I was not out to the world, but I just finished my NBC series, and I didn't think it was right to come out during that when I was playing a male character.

Writing my first book, 'Beautiful,' was the time that I was able to write the truth of it - that I was despairing at times, that I got depressed and felt like I couldn't cope. Writing became about being honest.

I won't write every one of my personal experiences into songs as I think it could be a bit depressing - and its nice to not be too open.

I see that people now recognize me in the street. But it doesn't change me in the depth of my being.

We've made a lot of party music; we're definitely not Thom Yorke. But there's also depth to our records; we get emotional.