Quotes About Authenticity

I'm still here, living proof that sometimes it's OK to admit to your fallibility.

My character has to be alive. It can't be a mere prop, and it has to have a life of its own. I need to have that space to play around and the scope to interact with the people around me. That freedom would give me a lot of margin to improvise with.

There are instances where you're in a space with someone who has been extraordinarily successful, and they don't necessarily connect with you as another person. You can be a prop for them to deliver their stuff, and you're just another element in the scene.

People started to ask me, 'Do you really play guitar?' They thought it was a prop. It was just interesting, because of all the imaging stuff.

I play guitar, and it's not a prop.

I am no glamorous prop waiting to be presented as a showpiece in a film. Filmmakers have to look beyond that.

Rather than being a prop in a film with big actors, I would love to do a meatier and more meaningful role in a film that does not feature a big actor.

I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.

I was like, 'I can't do grime. That's for kids.' - I was 20 at the time, and I thought I was a gangsta, a proper rude boy.

One thing that I pride myself on is, everything that I do is completely legit. We go through every channel, and do it the proper way.

I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.

I'm working on a proper rock record, a good, old-school rock record. Finally.

Sure, I know that I cannot speak in proper English. I know that I can't sing in proper English. I don't care.

I make very proper clothes. But I was never that person. For a long time, I thought that was the image I needed to have for my brand. And I thought that's the person that I needed to be. Because it gave me a distinct image that no one can deny.

I'm not a manufactured artist. Nobody taught me how to be a proper artist.

Especially in our industry, everything is so prim and proper; you'll never really see anyone show their sad side, because everyone wants to be perfect.

This profession, I don't know why, you're supposed to be so serious and just be so proper.

In my normal life, I am a private person doing a proper job.

Sometimes people think that I'm maybe pretentious or just weird, a fraud, or fake, because I have a formal education and speak properly and give people respect.

The thing about awards is that a lot of those moments are about the whole world telling you that you deserve it and rah, rah, rah. I'm very appreciative of that, but I love experiencing stuff by myself. Because it feels different. You know the truth, and you can hear what the voice in your head is saying properly.

I came out to myself when I was about 15 or 16, and to my parents when I was 18. When you come out to your parents, that's when it's properly official.

I feel like if I've written a song about something I haven't experienced, I wouldn't be able to perform it properly, and people would be able to see that. People can see right through that.

Impressionable audiences should be seeing characters that are properly fleshed out.

I don't think I can live a life of compromise. If I did, I wouldn't be able to sleep properly.