Quotes About Authenticity

I work in a public forum, and all I can do is say what I honestly feel.

Nothing is ever off the table at 'The Fosters' as long as it's based in reality.

It's really hard to foster self-love; it really is. I think a lot of people who claim that they do have a definite lack of self-loathing are either lying or just in a place that I don't relate to.

People have certain ideas of what they think you should be, and I have fought that categorisation my whole life.

Drag breaks the fourth wall, which is why it's never been quite accepted, because nobody wants to be told that they are really a caricature of themself and to not take yourself too seriously.

It is no longer important for me to be seen in every frame.

People think it is such an easy life, and you just go get ready, and someone does your hair and make up, and all you have to do is say a few dialogues. But there is lot more behind it. You are getting into a particular frame of mind to get into a scene; you have to get your emotion right.

The worst frame of mind to be in is what the fans like or what the fans want, because then you lose the authenticity of who you are as an artist and who you are as a person.

All of us struggle to live up to the image that's drawn for us. Perfect body, perfect skin, perfect house - we are put in a frame with a picture that 'others' decide for us. If we work to live up to just that, when will we do what we like?

I am pretty frank of a guy. That used to be appreciated, back in the day.

I'm telling the story, and if I can't tell the story, I'm not going to sing it. And if I don't agree with the story, and if I got to sing something that portrays me as something I'm not, then I'm not going to sing it either. I didn't even want to sing Aretha Franklin's 'Chain of Fools.'

I was told all my life to sing like Aretha Franklin, or Adele, cover myself with black clothing and show more soul, sing bigger.

I don't like to pay lip service. I don't frankly like to talk about stuff.

You can find things about me you don't like. And frankly, I don't want to hear it.

Frankly, no one had ever asked me before. My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about.

I'm at the point, frankly, where I'd rather deal with a misogynist with a copy of Tucker Max's book in his backpack over someone in sensitive emo-boy clothing, because both are misogynists, only the one with the backpack is more honest about just how scared of women he is.

I have done scenes where I've had to hold the hand of a girl and tell her that I love her. And frankly I did not enjoy that much.

As actors, you always have that moment thinking you've been absolutely terrible or a fraud.

I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school.

You are not going to change me and if you do, it will look like a fraud, it will be a fraud.

Anybody with my background in the airline business who is not deaf is a fraud.

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

Most artists think they're frauds anyway.

I always felt like a fraud.