Quotes About Authenticity

I love writing dialogue - it's when I really lose myself in my work. I love reading it, too, when it's good and rings true.

If I'm doing different accents, I feel like I'm acting. If I'm doing my own accent, I feel like I'm saying someone else's dialogue as myself.

It bloody annoys me when people forget that we're actors. Just because we tend to appear in things with our own accents, saying dialogue that comes naturally to us, people think we're just being ourselves.

I know I sometimes come across as being quite dismissive about acting. But I'm not. It's like people reading their diaries in public. I don't want to talk about how I create characters. I find it self-indulgent.

I don't want to be singing my diary.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

I'm not letting TV dictate who I really am.

There's only going be one Richard Pryor. You know how many came out after Richard Pryor and died trying to be compared to him? Or Bernie Mac? You got to be like you.

I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.

There's a difference between a rumor and a lie.

Own your differences and don't always try to fit in. The more unique you are, the more you stand out.

I'm different, and I'm not afraid to be different.

If I don't have the right clothes, I feel weird walking out; I don't feel comfortable in what I have on. I have different colors that I want to wear on different days because it makes me feel different.

I would never tell anyone who to vote for. I'm a different kind of 'liberal' and I think people should be true to themselves. If you're Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, you should be true to yourself and be who you are.

I feel like I'm a boy, but I don't feel like I should've been born with different parts of my body or anything like that. I feel like it's just all in how I dress and how I talk and how I look and feel, and that makes me happy.

When I say there's a little bit of Erika Jayne in everybody, what I mean by that is: No one is one way all the time. No one is buttoned up all the time and no one is wild all the time. There are different parts to your personality, different layers - and that's really what Erika Jayne is, another layer to a human being.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.

You can lose who you are so easily when you're being so many things to so many different people.

I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.

You don't have to be the sexiest girl or the most talented person to have the X factor. X factor is something you are born with that is your own. And the moment that you realize how to tap into that quality that you have within, and how to bring that individuality out of yourself, that is when you discover the X factor.

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

You know how there's always the one girl in drama school who can cry at the drop of a hat? She has that emotional well she can tap into in a second? I'm not that girl. It takes a lot to get me to that place.