Quotes About Authenticity

Ummm... well, the only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing, which sounds obvious, but it's really not.

The only thing I want to be defined by is my music and personality.

I never had a clique. If I throw a party, the only thing connecting people is me. Maybe I just don't believe in fear. I bulldoze right in.

The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.

The problem with Instagram is people aren't portraying their real selves.

I can't create music if I'm wearing a mask and not being myself, and that was the problem with The Czars.

The problem with a lot of narrative films is that they're not real enough.

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

I like playing characters in the real world.

If I have to travel, I'm going to travel my way and travel in the real world. And I'm going to have conversations every day with people in rest stops and people in gas stations and people in hotels and diners. That nourishes me.

I don't like false happy endings, and I don't think the real world is such a forgiving place.

There are so many glamorous actresses, but you know what? In the real world, nobody looks like that.

You can only really invent something if you connect yourself to the real world - whatever that means.

I am not that big of a fantasy person. I prefer myself to think of living in the real world.

Games are quite shy at talking about different things. Most are about facing hordes of monsters or saving the world or whatever; few games actually talk about the real world, about real people, about their relationship, their emotions, their feelings.

Most of my roles have had streaks of a real girl from the real world.

There's a part of me that feels like it gets really frustrating to keep working in the manner that I made the book 'Shortcomings,' where everything is pretty accurate to the real world.

But I was born in the real world, I'm from the streets.

I want content that is relevant to my life, that is relevant to me, that is set in the real world.

This is my favourite thing about being raised in Africa: we don't do labels very well; we don't do this, 'Oh, you're a Democrat; oh, you're a Republican.' Because we live in the real world.

Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.

I don't think there are beautiful women out there trying to lure men into any kind of conspiracy. I think people are out there just trying to meet someone new and interesting and live in the real world.

I'm interested in the real world.

It was nice to make things right, and I went to prom and actually had a good time in the TV world - the real world wasn't so much fun.