Quotes About Authenticity

Magazines and opinions of you and stuff like that, those will change, but your opinion of yourself does not have to based on what other people say. So I just learned that my inner voice has to be louder than their outside voice.

It doesn't matter what people say or what the rules say or what you're supposed to do, you go after what's in your heart.

Many people say to me, particularly about my dance writing, 'It sounds just like you.' But it sounds just like me after I've made it sound like me.

If you're convinced as an artist of what you're doing, the only move is to, no matter what people say or what management says or your best friends say or people on Facebook, do what you do, and people will find their way to it.

People say: 'Oh, it's only acting,' but it's not ever just acting. At least not with me.

There's only one rule in stand-up, which is that you have to be funny. Yet 99 per cent of comics look and talk exactly the same.

Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

Artists aren't really people. I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

A homosexual man is a man 100 per cent. He does not need to dress homosexual.

An actor should not bother about the camera per se, and what kind it is.

Antiheroes who are sort of honest to themselves are the ones you root for. Like, Barry Seal isn't trying to be anything other than he is. He isn't fooling anybody per se.

Be the person you want others to perceive you as. So if you want others to see you as a leader, then act like one. Don't expect things to be handed to you. You have to work for it.

I just play the music that I'm gonna play and don't really worry about how people perceive it.

I love the way little kids dress themselves! They're completely carefree about how others perceive them.

I've stopped caring how others are going to perceive me if I wear something that they don't like.

I've learned a lot about myself through my music and the way people perceive it, and the goal is for the success not to change me.

No artist wants to be perceived as a regurgitator.

My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.

I feel like a lot of people think of Hollywood as being fake, but it's only perceived that way because it takes 10 people to make someone look the way that they do. In reality, they're there because they are doing what they're passionate about.

I think that you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you would like to be perceived, so I think that through the years I've worked really hard at trying to create an image that is true to me.

I spent many years trying to fit in and do things the way I thought I was supposed to - trying to be perceived the way I thought people wanted to see me. I grew up in a very religious household and wasn't taught to feel comfortable or good about my sexuality, so it feels great to be able to say things the way I want to say them.

I love that, 'mommy-shaming.' When I was a new mom, I was obsessed with how I was being perceived and trying to fit in as a mom, going to mommy-and-me classes and things like that, and never quite measuring up to 'the real moms,' the 'robot moms,' as I called them.

I just try and decide what I'm interested in and what excites me. I don't worry about how it's going to be perceived.

I know that I'm often perceived as this odd guy who's a bit out there, and I've probably, once in a while, reinforced that image, but I'm really not that person, and, in a way, I want even less so to be seen like that.