Quotes About Authenticity

At the end of the day, you're trying to - be it on theatre or on the camera - tell the truth and be honest in the moment.

I liked theatre because I could hide behind a role I was playing, but now, I just love being on stage. I don't pretend that I'm anyone else, I just show my full range when I am up there, and it's very liberating.

Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.

Of all the mediums, theatre is the one where you really need to have something to say - because it's just you, the words, and the space.

To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.

But then I got a job selling coffee at the York Theatre, and when I met theatre people, something clicked. I felt comfortable with them; I felt like myself. I decided to go to drama school based just on that feeling. I had never done any acting.

Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the right parts. Stunt casting and being gimmicky does the theatre a great disservice. You have to lure people by getting them excited about a theatrical experience.

My number-one goal is to never feel like I'm strictly defining myself. The minute I feel like I'm doing that as anything - as theatrical, as feminist, as songwriter - I feel like the minute I name it, I'm stuck in a box.

People think I'm just sort of this P. T. Barnum, razzle-dazzle guy. They think I go out of my way to be outlandish and theatrical at the expense of having emotions. They don't get that there's another side to me, and I keep trying to show that other side.

I liked being on stage; I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.

It's always odd to me when people say, 'Where does Heloise finish and Chris start?' It's the same thing. I'm just putting a theatrical form to my expression.

If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.

It's a difficult thing to stamp your songs with a label, to stamp your record with a theme. Often times that compromises what you're doing.

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.

If somebody ever says something is a mature theme, it's bound to not be. I mean, you shouldn't fall for that. You can make it sound mature, but anything that's about being mature is pretty immature.

I want to make theme-setting music, music that sets a theme without being cliche.

I long for real and true connection. It has been the theme of all the songs in my whole life.

There is a theme to my broadcasting career - I've never done anything just for the money.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity. —Coco Chanel

Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart—it's all a man has. —Hubert Humphrey

This above all: To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. —William Shakespeare

The secret is learning to accept people as they are, not as you wish them to be.

No man can, for any considerable time, wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which is the true one. —Nathaniel Hawthorne

In our family, we don't hide crazy...we put it on the porch and give it a cocktail.