Quotes About Authenticity

If you are who you are on stage, people pay attention.

When you are 'world building,' people will oftentimes judge how well you built your world. They want to know: Is the culture believable? Does it feel like it has a history? I try very hard to pay attention to details.

People say that soundstage sets never quite look like reality. But actually, they can. They can be as real as you want as long as you pay attention to the kind of detail that is given for free in a real place.

I always stand behind the things that I do. I don't listen to those who downplay things nor do I pay attention to those who grovel at our feet and tell us that we're the greatest. For me, that is just noise.

I don't know, I really try not to pay attention to comparisons, 'cause I'm my own artist. I try to build my own sound.

I'm not Ryan Seacrest. If I want people to pay attention to me, I have to just eat scorching-hot food.

If I'm paying money to come to see you, you shouldn't look like everybody else in the crowd.

I'd like to make mistakes on my own dime and not have a herd of people tell me what I'm doing wrong. and I'm also still trying to find and develop my voice as a filmmaker, and I think that's easier to do on your own terms than trying to satisfy a bunch of people that are paying for the movie.

It's all run by one person, but, real talk, Brandon McCartney is a book author, the Based God is perfect and Lil B is the trendsetter, the person that everyone follows and pays attention to.

I feel like it's my duty to keep it real for my community of moms out there for both my own peace of mind and the fact that some of you may be going through or have experienced what I am!

Everything isn't always going to be peaches and cream. If it is, then it's fake.

Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.

I can remember somebody once saying to me that they thought my life must be less real than these other people that they were writing about, which I found a very peculiar thing 'cos all our lives are equally real, and it's just a matter of depicting them and talking about them.

For my peculiar face, I look best when I look as though I'm not wearing make-up.

I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.

I never wanted to be on a pedestal.

I'm real, and that what you see is what you get with me. I want people to know that I'm just Julianne. I'm not somebody that needs to be put up on a pedestal.

I'm not into having a pedigree dog.

It's nice to be able to show how we are like in person and give a peek behind the curtain with 'Total Divas.' That's been my biggest feedback is how different than I am behind the scenes than I am onstage.

As a writer, I always peel back the layers, go to the most sensitive places uncomfortably close to the heart.

Caving into blather and peer pressure never bolstered anyone's argument.

I will not change what I am for no amount of money or just kudos for my peers.

I think now, whenever I write, there is nothing that will really compare to pen and paper.

It's always nice when people discover I'm a normal person and not, because of my appearance, a half-crazed lunatic who may stab them with a Bic pen.