Quotes About Authenticity

You know, I'm speaking for myself. I didn't like to have to speak filtering for what I thought somebody else would or wouldn't want me to say.

The comedians I always loved and respected the most were always filthy degenerates.

I like to work with directors where you feel they make the movies not for the audience, but make them for themselves. They don't care if it's a success financially. That's what I like.

Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.

I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.

I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.

I feel fine and comfortable with myself, but not because I'm beautiful.

I think everybody's crazy, and if I'm the one being a little direct about it, that's fine by me.

When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted to write, and if 10 people wanted to hear it, that's fine.

I want to be relatable. I want people to know who I am, but that doesn't mean you get to know everything about me and my life. I think that there's a fine line.

I think there's a really fine line between innovating and being gimmicky, and we're trying to stay on the proper side of that.

A lot of artists are aspiring to fill an archetype as opposed to being themselves. Even if they can't quite put their finger on it, fans can tell.

The people I always loved listening to had a little bit of dirt under their fingernails because they had done some living and had these stories to talk about.

I think there's not a lot of real filmmakers. There are only a few people who make real cinema. I can count them on my fingers.

We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.

After I finished working for Estee Lauder, I stopped being a professional model. I decided to never again advertise something that I don't actually use. I only sign up for things that I truly believe in.

In order to maintain that fire for acting and capture its essence, you can't let yourself be concerned with what people have to say about you. You just can't.

To be able to research directly from firefighters makes all the difference in the world in the authenticity of a performance.

I'm a firm believer in putting your experiences in your writing, of bleeding into the page.

I firmly believe in standing by what you are. I was never taught to dim my light to pacify other people.

My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.

I'm a writer. I'm moonlighting on television. I never made any pretensions to that. As much as I like being on 'Real Sports,' I have been a writer since I was a little boy, and that's still my first love.

Kids will tell me 'oh I want to be like you when I grow up,' you know. I just thought 'nah, don't be like me, be like you,' because first of all they don't really know me but second of all I understand what they're trying to say but I just let them know - be like you.

No matter what you do in life, it's always a struggle, to first of all find who you are.