Quotes About Authenticity

We get along really well, but TV and film aren't reality. We're best friends, but we do have our fights!

I knew that I had to find my own voice, both figuratively and literally.

Don't try to walk in someone else's shoes - literally and figuratively. Wear what you feel confident in.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.

I think people get confused: people think 'strong female characters' mean you need to play an action figure.

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

Somebody said to me once that Chvrches was an emo band in disguise, but nobody had figured it out yet, and I thought, 'You're not wrong!'

My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later.

I like clothes. When I realized as a child that you had to wear them, and it takes the same amount of effort to look good or not, I figured out long ago that I only wanted stuff that I loved and looked good in.

I've finally figured out how to make a Rodney Crowell record, and that's let it be, leave the mistakes.

I've definitely met some people that cultivated a masculinity that they taught themselves. I don't know how they figured out how to do it, but I couldn't.

I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest.

If public figures came out of the closet, then the LGBT kids who saw them on TV would feel safe before they even knew why they felt dangerous. Maybe if enough people came out of the closet, gay kids would never feel dangerous. Maybe we could have a world where we could all just live. We may not all agree, but why can't we just all live?

An actor is known by his choices, not by his box-office figures.

People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.

No man ever fell in love with me for the way I fill out a Lycra dress.

I want to give the girls who admire us everything I can. I don't want to just fill them with selfies and crap. That's not what I'm about. I'm about, 'Be aware of the world and that you're not the only one in it.'

I'm not gonna be someone I'm not, because I don't want them to draft someone who's not me, and then I have to try and fill that role. I'm gonna be me, and hopefully a team falls in love with me.

I would never try to fill John Lewis's shoes. I can only be myself - my authentic self.

My emotion is real, and my everyday life is filled with the same feeling.

I think audiences can feel when they're being served a filler episode.

I don't agree with lip filler now, it can be dangerous and I think people need to love the way they are.

Many of my friends are not in the film industry, and I feel like it's healthy. It's not totally by choice. It is, perhaps, people I connect with.