Quotes About Authenticity

I have to have some of my voice because I have my own experiences that I lived through.

I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.

Things that you might be embarrassed to tell a group about yourself - honestly, that's probably what the majority of the group is experiencing are those things that you keep quiet in your heart.

For me, the whole idea of performance is not being self-aware, and then sort of just experiencing.

I've seen Chance and the Social Experiment build their own careers in the way that's most authentic to them.

I hate when there's a band that you've loved and you go and see them and it's like only the really new experimental stuff from the current album.

Mark Ruffalo is Mark Ruffalo - no explanation needed. He has the biggest heart of anyone I've ever met, and he's sort of the Dave Schultz of the entertainment industry.

Sometimes I think I've been too honest, and other times, too explicit.

I think we run into issues when our online brands are not rooted in who we are, and I think we need to have explicit discussions with ourselves about who we want to be, what we want to represent, and how we want to express that.

I'll stop when I think I'm not doing good stuff. I'll never exploit something just because people like it.

It's exhilerating to be able to explore my own voice.

I don't relate to what is seen as 'Arab culture.' I relate to what I explore myself, what is around me.

On 'Y Tu Mama Tambien,' we started exploring shots that are longer, where the camera is moving around the actors, and there are no cuts, and you feel like you're there.

Stage is all real; it's just as honest except it's bigger. I love stage, I love TV and film, so I think I'll just keep exploring and try to keep a really full picture.

That's something I really like about 'Lone Star,' is that they allow my character to just be who he is, while also at other times exploring his trans experience and giving room for that as well.

I was never very good at marketing myself, I was very good at being explosive and making sense of something in the chaos around me.

Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?

Everybody has that thing about them that makes them special, and sometimes we try to dull it down or we don't always want to expose it, and maybe we've been taught that way or whatever. It's just a matter of letting it out and letting it go and letting people in on it.

If you write your own material and perform your own material, then nobody can really expose it because if you keep your secrets close to yourself, then nobody can really expose you.

If you compromise in the casting it is bound to expose eventually.

I would have made a lousy stripper. I'm just not very comfortable exposing myself.

There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.

I mean, my stand-up is very honest and exposing in this way. I probably carry that into everything I do.

I'm not going to do anything that I don't think is very funny, even if it's a lot of money or massive exposure.