Quotes About Authenticity

I'm a human, we're going to go through hard times and hard periods of our life, it's not going to be an easy ride all the time. That's what we forget. On social media, it seems that way that living are living these idyllic lives and it's not. There's going to be bumps in the road, that's life.

I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.

What's weird is that anybody can write anything, and once it goes online, it's permanent. My very first biography on IMDb, which was written by a manager I had at the time, was not true.

You can't really fake chemistry: either you have it or you don't, and you can't have a relationship on screen if you don't have one off screen. I love Sarah Paulson. I absolutely adore her. My wife has given me full permission to love Sarah Paulson, and I look forward to doing that for the rest of my life.

I've given myself permission to say whatever's on my mind when I'm on stage.

I do wish I could have given myself permission to really name and own the me of me earlier in life.

My friend's mom said to me, 'honey, I think you're gay.' And I go, 'yeah, I am.' As soon as someone vocalized it to me, gave me permission. I was like, 'yes, yes, yeah!'

What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.

If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.

I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.

A lot of times, people won't be 100 percent real with their story, and I wanted to give people the drawn-out experience of the perseverance and the struggle that it took to get here.

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.

I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.

I am the last person on Earth who can be diplomatic. I say what I actually feel.

I'm a good person and that's what I am at the end of the day.

I am an honest person, and that includes showing my emotions - good or bad.

Circumstances don't make a person; they reveal him or her.

I don't think that I'm broken at all. I no longer think that I'm a mess. I just think I'm a deeply feeling person in a messy world.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

I'm not interested in a persona.

The Anne you see on TV is me; I don't have an on-camera persona.

I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.

People will listen to a song and expect that you just have that persona on all the time. But really, that was your one outlet that one day to get that emotion out. The only difference was you put it on a canvas that's going to be there forever.

It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.