Quotes About Authenticity

I don't have the biggest range on Earth, obviously, and I feel like people give me a lot of flak for that, but I don't really claim to have a big range.

I like that my dad makes it clear he's there to make you laugh, not to showcase his emotional range.

My goal is to broaden and deepen the range of African-American characters on television, so I always try to show human beings.

I know my voice has a limited range of motion; I don't write dramatic monologues and pretend to be other people. But so far, my voice is broad enough to accommodate most of what I want to put into my poetry. I like my persona; I often wish I were him and not me.

I've seen a range of children's personalities, so it's easier to write about them without patronising them, I think.

I've never been a cheerleader. It's so outside of my range of things I could ever do.

You can't fake comedy. You can't make it look beautiful or put an interesting bit of music on in the background: funny can only be funny if you're funny.

It's funny, people don't think of 'Cloverfield' as being restrained because it's a handycam movie, but the only reason it's a handycam movie is because that was supposed to be the reality of the situation.

It's funny: people who meet me say, 'I thought you'd be different.' But I'm still the same guy.

I'm not a funny person.

Fans, when they see me, they're like, 'Rah, he's a real funny person,' but everyone who grew up with me is like, 'Rah, that's Fat Tyrone.'

Fake buckteeth make a joke that you don't have to make any effort on, even if you're not a funny person.

Rock music is a funny thing: You can actually take it too far sometimes, and then it's not rock music anymore - it's something else, but it's not rock.

Trying to be funny is arguably the least funny thing you can do.

I thought comedians were the funny guy in the common room, not understanding that the flaws in my personality were actually the funny things about me.

I'd rather sit at home than be a part of a popular show and be a piece of furniture.

I've always been a person that is searching for truth and always wants to go further, deeper.

I have always chosen roles that I believed in - not ones that I thought might further my career.

The further you go, what, I'm gonna wait til I'm 80? Naw, I'm tellin' my story now. I was just moved. I was moved to tell my story. You know? People write books all the time.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, 'No, I'm just going to write what I feel I should write.'

I've never been a girly-girl, never drawn to things that are fussy.

Gaga came to me, and I just could not find a soul. I come from church; maybe that has something to do with it. I like to get to the soul of a person. I just didn't feel a soul.

She's quite the professional, but I think the true Gaga - the magic of Gaga - is she knows how to dive into any element and really just be comfortable in her own skin.

If you want to be taken seriously and gain credibility, you really do have to try and write yourself. I don't want to do an album of covers and stuff.