Quotes About Authenticity

If you can do something that's authentic to yourself, how you feel as a person, then it's gonna be different than everybody else because everybody's different.

I'm gonna talk my talk, I'm gonna walk my walk.

I'm just gonna be doing stuff that I really enjoy doing. I'm not gonna attempt to be current in any way other than the fact that people will like what I'm doing currently.

Crying does not equal good acting.

I'm not a very good actor.

I'm not a good actor.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

I am not a very good actor.

Bad actors try to cry, and good actors try not to. Bad actors try to laugh, and good actors try not to.

It doesn't matter what people think about you, so long as they get the play through your performance. Only a few not very good actors go in for self-advertisement.

Good art is never made in studio. Good art I make in life.

I'm a good cook, I am not a great cook. I'm an absolute fraud.

It's not that I have compromised or anything, but it's always been important to me to take good care of myself and be a good example. I'm not much a role model in terms of hair care, though.

I am a good father in real life, that's why I'm able to play a good father on screen so convincingly.

I need weird breakages to happen for music to feel true to life, and I think that also applies to good film scores.

I'm not infatuated with frivolousness. We're just good friends.

My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it cost her dearly. Late in her life, she was furious that she had not followed her own heart; she thought that it had ruined her life, and I think she was right.

The bottom line is, I'm blessed with good health. On top of that, I don't go around thinking 'Oh, I'm 90, I better do this or I better do that.' I'm just Betty. I'm the same Betty that I've always been. Take it or leave it.

The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.

Real emotion is good - or doing a good job of faking real emotion.

I think I spent the first many years of Pinterest trying to be a really good leader, like what I thought a good leader should be.

Simply, if you're working with good material, then it's right there, and you don't have to try so hard as an actor; you don't have to do so much. Just let the material sit inside you and let it come out. Just say the words. That was the main thing that I learned from doing Aaron Sorkin's work - say the words, and everything else will happen.

I don't feel embarrassed by any of the music that I like. I think it's all genuinely clever, good music.

My goal is just to be real and bring people good music and let them enjoy the music that I bring.