Quotes About Authenticity

I've had people say so much, that I'm a fraud. I've had people email me and say, 'You're going to die.'

I feel like I came in comedy's side door, and still feel very fraudulent in many ways.

I cannot and will not play something if I still have questions. I feel like I am being fraudulent.

I am a big believer in letting your own personal freak flag fly.

Don't feel bad if you never 'get famous.' Don't freak out if you have less than 300 Twitter followers.

I'm a big believer in letting your freak flag fly.

We put on fights between the best fighters; we don't put on freak shows.

I have always been Fred Durst and I've always been me.

Basically, I'm a free spirit. I'm kind of an Everywoman.

Even the fact that I labelled myself makes me mad sometimes, because dude, I'm just a free spirit.

Such is the impurity of our enterprise, as writers or as critics, that even in the act of proclaiming our freedom from the demands of authenticity, we are never free from brandishing it.

Just playing someone who's not concerned with people's comfort levels is so freeing.

I feel like I've been known for having long black hair, so when I took all my extensions out and cut my own hair, it was the most freeing thing, I think, I've ever done. That was my 21st year: I cut my hair, I was doing Broadway; I was living in New York, and I was really having a moment of becoming my individual self, and it was amazing.

I'm so proud that now you can exist as a gay man and be an Olympian, and it can be beneficial rather than negative. So it's amazing. And I just think I feel so liberated now that I've been out of the closet for a while, and so I'm free in that I just get to be myself, speak freely, act freely, and I think that I am competing confidently.

I make songs that I genuinely enjoy and love, and just put them out kind of freely and carelessly.

If I am playing the game freely, and those opportunities come up to cross the line, then I get enjoy that a lot. But when I try to force things, I am not playing my best footy.

I could have gone the route of the Jonas Brothers. Those guys can't live their lives freely. They have to put out this image that's totally fake.

When I'm playing more freely, I can show my real quality.

I want to show that we all have the right to be ourselves, and I certainly don't want to freeze time.

French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.

Every time a director calls me and says, 'If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?' And I always tell them, 'Well, maybe but I'm French. So it's going to be hard to be someone else.'

I feel like I'm really lucky because I get to sometimes maybe vibrate at a frequency that's a little deeper and darker than people anticipate.

There are days when I love a fresh blow-dry, but sometimes I just go with bedhead.

I spent freshman year trying straightness on for size and failing miserably.