Quotes About Authenticity

I don't really follow any fashions. I just wear what I want to wear each day. I don't care if they clash or not.

Getting chronic Lyme disease is probably the fastest way to figure out what and who is real in your life.

In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.

I have belly fat like everybody else, and I don't want to be airbrushed on the cover of a magazine.

I've always turned down stuff where you had to be fat. I may be fat, but that's not why you play a role. If the guy has to be that way, I say get somebody else because I'm not doing any fat acting.

I admit that I'm fat.

I used to use Facetune to get rid of blemishes, and slimming apps because I was scared of being called fat, but no more.

For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.

I think at the end of the day, I am myself, to a fault.

It's really how you deal with people. Do people respect you? Are you honest with people even if it's something they don't want to hear? Anyone in Hollywood will tell you I'm extremely up front and honest almost to a fault.

I will never wear something I'm not comfortable in, and if I do, you'll see it in my face, and it'll be a complete faux pas.

I really don't want to go to work every day convincing myself of what I'm saying. I want the material to make me a better actor; then I try to return the favor to the material.

I admire actresses who are willing to jettison the easy route toward exposure and commercial success as an actor in favor or a slow burn, choosing projects carefully, and building an artistic practice over time that feels specific to who they are as artists.

I'm just me and if me being honest about who I am and putting myself out there in that way makes connections with people and helps people out, that's just repaying the favor of music because that's what music does for me.

My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.

I've never gone out and courted favors. I've never gone out to be booed, either. It's just me being myself.

'Authentic' is one of my least favourite words because in such a diverse country, whose authenticity are you talking about?

I don't think I am fearless. I am just me.

I'm brave and fearless when I'm performing, but in real life, I'm actually quite prudish.

Children are fearless and honest, they are the best people to watch. There's no falseness.

When we were starting, the only old guys you'd see on stage were blues guys. They played every night, feast or famine, skint, rich, in fashion and out. You didn't have to ask them about their lives, their dreams, it was written on their faces: that's who they were and that's what they did.

I never wanted to be a feature - that was never the goal with my music. I didn't want to just live through other people's work.

I wrote 'Paava Kadhaigal' the same way I wrote my feature films 'Irudhi Sutru' or 'Soorarai Potru.' I was more honest in this film rather, because you can afford to be real and get away with it.

The strength of 'The Gift' is that the people featured and their stories are given the space to speak for themselves.