Quotes About Authenticity

There's a thin line between catering to the masses and making a fool of yourself; I try to walk that line.

There was a time when I only wanted to show off, but as I've grown older, I've realised that acting isn't an end in itself. You act to communicate something, and if you have to use an accent or become thin or fat, that's part of your job.

People try to sell a fantasy with beauty campaigns. Overly Photoshopped, perfect, white, thin figures are a standard that most people still hold as beautiful because the industry says so.

If the only reason to be on stage communicating with people is to tell them a joke and make them laugh, that seems thin for me. That has a place - I don't think it should stop happening - but for me, I don't know. I just don't.

I'm not thin. I don't starve myself.

Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!'

It was reading Hamlet that ruined the concept of authenticity for me, not because Hamlet lacked existentialist credentials himself - indeed, as an earlier discontented Dane, he could be said to have laid the ground for Kierkegaard - but because the line 'to thine own self be true' was spoken by that humourless old ninny, Polonius.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

The DJ role, it's never been a big thing for me.

Never forget that the most political thing you can ever do is follow your heart.

The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it's a shield.

Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

We spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to make impressions that don't matter.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

If you try to make things happen, they start to feel presented. They start to feel premeditated.

You have to be OK with your own fears. If you're an honest person, you'll make mistakes, but that's when the most interesting things happen.

I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.

You could say that it's in talking movies that inner life begins to appear. You can see things happen to the faces of people that were neither planned nor rehearsed.

That's why I love theatre, because things happen in the moment. I think you work without being conscious that you're working.

I don't care who I align with. Things happen naturally.

I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.

I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.