Quotes About Authenticity

I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the show now.

I'm not very good at being a performing monkey.

Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I don't long for it. I don't need the approval of an audience, or applause.

People expect that I'll be just perfect on ice, and that's not the case. I make mistakes, too. When I review my performance, sometimes I feel I did awful. That's the whole part of the process of what people see when I'm performing.

I'm not one of these guys who is dedicated to playing or performing - that's just one facet of my life.

When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to... I finally feel like myself.

Sometimes you go to a show, and you see someone and think they're not there right now. They're performing, but it's muscle memory. There is no memorising some of the ways we put on a show.

Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.

And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

The jobs I enjoy most are the ones where I never feel like I'm performing. I'm just feeling things.

I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized I enjoyed performing things that I came up with myself more and I enjoyed making people laugh more than making people cry or think.

Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.

It's all performing; that's what we do in life. We talk, we look, and we hear, and we listen. Your life is a performance.

For a lot of actors, there's a sort of code of honor around playing something other than yourself, which I just don't have. I love feeling like I'm - I won't even say acting out, but performing in some deep seam of my consciousness or my family's consciousness or my past. That's really amusing to me.

We're all performing for someone.

I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places.

I know, if I would have won 'X-Factor' and if I would have continued in that lane, I would have spiraled out of control. Performing on there was good, but it wasn't me. It was me compromising for the judges, just different people around.

I put my all into performing so people can walk away knowing a bit more about me and feel the passion in my story.

I think it's important for people to be themselves and express themselves through their makeup or their hair or their perfume or whatever it may be.

I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

Most period drama is so earnest. A lot of it is about making yourself take seriously things you wouldn't normally.

I wanted to make these people real, not like they were in a painting. Like these are people who don't know they're in a period movie. Those concerns are incredibly immediate.

By the time I enrolled in the military at 20, I had spent years in denial about who I really was. I was openly gay and would go through periods of cross-dressing, and had even thought about transitioning, but I was in such complete denial.