Quotes About Authenticity

First of all, I am not royal... and lastly, I am not royal. It's not appropriate.

I'm very comfortable singing myself, first of all. Secondly, there's a certain disconnect when you write the song and you have someone else sing it for you. And it's kind of like a fakeness about it.

As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.

If music sounds dated, it means it wasn't very good in the first place.

If I have a passion for anything, it's more the truth than politics, and I think that's what got me interested in comedy in the first place, because the best comedy is the truth. People recognize that.

People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I'm expressing now is for the first time.

I loved the Brazilian music I played. But this is finally me. For the first time I think it's really me.

I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from 'Dumb and Dumber' or whatever movie they liked. And that's fine, it gets them in the door, but then it's my job to give them something different.

I have only written what I experienced, what I saw, what I learned first-hand.

I always say that I've grown little flaps on a stage and I've got these little gills that open, because on the stage I'm in my element and I'm like a fish that's come out when I'm on land, which is filming. I'm never quite as comfortable as I am on the stage.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

I just don't fit into the box.

But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always going to be you and if they don't like you for who you are, then what's the point of being someone else?

I don't believe in looking like a mannequin. I like my bulges and love handles, but fitness is important for me.

I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.

Fashion isn't something I madly follow. I tend just to wear what I like and what fits me well.

For me, what matters is who are you working with, what you are working on, and when all that fits naturally, I let it go. Then, I don't care if it is bold or if it needs me to be uninhibited. I just want the role that I am playing to come out the way it should.

It's hard when people ask me to walk in a different way than I would naturally. I don't think my walk is particularly elegant if you compare it to other girls, but it fits my personality.

We didn't feel we fitted into the '80s.

I've never been very good at fitting into boxes.

I will never be able to fix myself enough to the point I like myself, so I just jumped to the point where I said, 'I like myself as I am.'

I think that winning the White House is about more than just entertaining a large audience.

I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.

Don't tell lies, ever. No matter what - not even little white lies.