Quotes About Authenticity

It's never been a priority for me to concentrate on the likability of the character.

I believe that we should keep the truth as a priority.

You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.

A lot of times, people say, 'You're so much like Loretta or Tammy Wynette.' But I feel kind of like one of the men. I'm like David Allan Coe. I've been to prison, man!

My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all.

If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.

What a woman does or does not do to her face is personal. And as with most other things, makeup or a lack thereof can serve as either a prison or a fortress commanded by the mind: you can become a slave to it, or it can set you free.

I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image.

I like to keep some privacy, be a normal person.

It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.

I'd like people to get a sense of who I am, yet I want to keep my privacy, too.

I try to keep it separate as I can, but also, I'm not going to live my life in complete privacy. If I'm feeling something, I'm going to live my life. I will not hide things.

There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet.

Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.

I enjoy being a character actor; I enjoy being different in everything. I want a private life; I want to be able to go to 7-11 and not get into a fight with a guy because he saw me in a movie, or not have people hitting on me simply because they saw me in a movie.

What the actor is in private life, he is to a large extent on the stage, because he cannot conceal himself and his true personality from his audience.

In my work, I want to convince people that I'm that character. If they know everything about Lesley Manville - private life, all of that stuff - it doesn't help. So the kind of anonymity I enjoy is key.

I think having a private life that you only share with your nearest and dearest is important. Otherwise, who are you?

I guess I'm dedicated to breaking every inherited mould I can in my private life.

If I am going to write a book, which I have done, I think we have to get it right - whatever has been written about me, about football, about my private life.

I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I've never been a private person.

I was such a private person before I started 'The Talk.' I don't know what happened! It almost feels like I've started a second life. In my previous lifetime, I didn't talk about stuff. Now I'll discuss anything. It's crazy!