Quotes About Authenticity

We've just always felt like we had a product onstage that represented us.

I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?

The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.

There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.

Nobody makes bouillabaisse from scratch. It's all a bunch of malarkey. Even the restaurants buy a commercial-grade product. I had a very famous chef tell me that.

I hate being thought of as a product.

Here's the lines I draw: I never say something I don't believe - ever, ever, ever; and I won't endorse a product I don't like and use. When the cameras are off, we are who we are when they're on.

Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.

I won't put a product out that I don't 100 percent believe in. All of my products are made from the best ingredients and are made to make a woman feel like herself, only prettier and more confident.

I think part of what made the original 'Sufferfest' charming was the extremely low production value. It was all shaky handheld footage from Cedar.

I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don't care about who's got the biggest-selling album; and I don't care about glossy production.

I just want to keep on creating stuff that people can relate to and inspire anyone who feels like their voice isn't heard; being relatable and being as authentic as possible is the whole goal of my production company.

When I started making movies, they tried to change my name, but I had already made a name for myself in a couple of Broadway productions and in television, so I wouldn't change it.

They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.

We must Think what we Say, and Mean what we Profess.

People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.

I am not a civil rights leader, and I don't profess to be one.

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.

Don't let the world define you. In the world of acting, and I think in any profession, really, people are really eager to put you in a box and categorize you as one particular thing.

What I like to wear, I do myself. I don't know how that sounds, but it's the truth. My life is so mixed with my profession that I don't know where I begin or my work ends.

I always wanted to be a good actress and a serious actress. I wasn't in the profession to, quote-unquote, meet the stars.