Quotes About Authenticity

Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British.

I used to worry I'd make a fool of myself, but I don't care what anyone thinks of me anymore.

I don't want to try to fool people into thinking that I'm something that I'm not.

Something I learned early on in my career is there's no use trying to fool anybody about what you want to do on a project where there are other people involved, rather than your own thing.

I don't care about making a fool of myself on stage anymore. I don't care what people think.

It took a lot of years for me to get comfortable, strutting my stuff, dancing like a fool, having that sparkly dress on that says, 'Here I am.'

I tell people all the time, 'Don't be fooled, because I am a man by day.'

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.

I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest.

I think if you run away from who you are, that you're a Democrat and you're proud to be a Democrat, it's foolish. And the reason it's foolish is you've got a lot to be proud of.

I lead a simple lifestyle but that doesn't mean I am a foolish simpleton!

What I never want to do is start phoning it in and making things just to show that I can keep my foot in the door and do big movies.

In war films, even more than in other kinds of documentary, we've come to think that shaky, poor-quality footage is somehow more authentic than something classically 'well shot.'

For a long time, I was just a football player, but I want people to see me for who I am.

People watch me because I am a footballer, not because I wear a nice watch.

I always break it down I am three different people. I'm Troy Deeney the footballer, I'm daddy who the kids get to see and I'm Troy which a few of my mates get to see.

Don't follow in my footsteps; follow your heart.

People expected me to be creative and true to myself. In that way, I follow my father's footsteps.

I've always played it my way. I failed media training, for example.

People look at me, for example, and think I have this perfect lavish life, that it's lit all the time, when that's not true at all.

Sometimes in entertainment, when people have done the Academy Awards - like, for example, in 'The Bodyguard' - I just didn't believe it; it didn't feel authentic.

I know that everybody is not going to be a Terrell Suggs fan, and that's fine. For the people that are, I'm going to be myself and they are going to love me and they are going to enjoy it.

The process of coming out was critical to getting where we are today: coming out to our friends, our family, our co-workers, God forbid, to our clients.

There's kind of a gift in being gay because, if you come out, you're forced to express yourself.