Quotes About Authenticity

I'm not one of those guys that says something stupid just for the sake of getting more attention.

I love that with a lot of my favorite records, I couldn't tell you the sales on them, like Scarface or some of the UGK albums.

I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in 'The Salvation.'

Honestly, 'Side A' is supposed to be a project just from my heart and whatever is happening in my heart at the time, and I want 'Side B' to also fit that same thing.

I sometimes buy albums that I don't like now, but that I know I will like. Coming out was the same thing. In high school, I thought, 'I know I'm going to have to deal with this, but I'm not confident enough now.' But when I finally did, my whole life changed.

People look the best when they feel the most comfortable, so I buy 10 of the same thing if I really like it.

Many times, I get young people asking, 'What do you think about black movies?' And I say, 'What are you talking about? You mean Hollywood movies that have black people in them?' It's gone back to that, and that's not the same thing as a black movie.

I hate playing pretty or sane people. Most people are not attractive or all there.

You make documentaries because you love doing it; it's the only sane reason to make documentaries.

But at the end of the day, I'm a girl. I'm from Santa Monica. I'm going to look how I want to look and play how I want to play, and if people don't like it, then they don't like it.

I'd like to do more stuff with less sarcasm.

I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!

I am an archetype. There's the fat, sassy, black friend, you know? That's an archetype that exists, but that's not truly me.

I don't really believe getting into a relationship just for the sake for it. I don't get satisfied by it.

I should be satisfied first as an actor with my work. I will not do something because everyone is doing it.

You coach to coach. You don't coach to satisfy media, satisfy fans.

If you go for the money first and try to think of what other people want to see, you change your original inspiration and perhaps put out something that's less original and less personal and maybe less satisfying.

For me, the most satisfying time to work with people, and time when it really works, is when you work with directors that are into the truth of any sort of situation.

Over the years, I have come to realize that no matter how satisfying fiction is, it becomes that much better when it actually happened.

I think that's the thing I learned at 'Saturday Night Live' - any time I would try and strategize, I would always, always fall on my face. Things worked out when I tried to make it about what I was feeling at that moment and what I was into in that moment of my life.

Don't buy the bootlegs, save your stuff, everything's coming back out.

My life needed to be saved. Not just Foxy. That's my character. That's my work. Inga is a person.

I've learned I'm not lying by not saying anything, so I just don't say it anymore.

You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.