Quotes About Authenticity

Every human being can relate to wanting their thoughts and their feelings to be accepted and rewarded and validated. So in that way, a stand-up is similar to almost any profession. It's very simply just someone who wants to be heard and live authentically and express themselves.

For me, acting is something I am passionate about. I am someone who wants to be known for who I am. If I wanted to just make money, I would've chosen some other profession.

I don't act to prove anything to anyone. I like acting. It is the only profession I know.

I wanted to put a song out there to let people know who I was and, at the same time, help me set apart from a lot of different people in country radio.

I'm always a different person when I get up and perform because then I don't have to be nervous. I don't have to be myself.

I am a different person in front of the camera; it comes as easy to me as breathing does.

Once I decided to be a different person on stage, I got the chance to be larger than life and over the top, which I love.

As soon as I step on the field, totally different person. As soon as I step off, I go back to who I've always been.

People know me only from the Octagon, from the gym. I'm a different person outside and I am who I want to be.

Bleachers comes from a different place. It's personal. It's just me putting myself out there as myself. It's very intense.

I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.

I don't feel I have to charm somebody, I feel I want to know them; it's a different thing.

I don't want to be the next anyone. I just want to be me, now. And that means all different things.

I believe your thoughts are your thoughts, but are you a human being in front of the camera, or an actor? They are two different things.

I've been told to wear different things, to look different, to lose weight, to look sexier, to wear more hair, to wear more makeup.

Both are two different things. As a VJ, you are yourself. But as an actor, you are playing a character that you want people to fall in love with.

Certain people like the way I make films, and others do not. I've come to terms with the fact that there's no other way I can make films. If I tried to do it in a different way, it would never work.

What is the point of me changing? If I became another person, it would be bad. If I acted in a different way with my friends, they would not be happy. It's important I stay the same.

Most people can differentiate between the guy you see on TV and the real-life guy.

People need to differentiate me from my roles.

You cannot say things one week and then behave differently.

I really think truth comes from the body. When you're running for your life, you breathe differently; you talk differently.

I try to remain the same player and person that I am all the time. Eventually, you grow up and think a little bit differently. But the core of the mind and the person is still the same as before. It is one of the main characteristics that it is important for me to stay the same.

Most of my show is true; like, 90% of everything I say on stage is true. I just have to find the way to make it funny - that's the difficult thing.