Quotes About Authenticity

Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in real time for me.

I am Thomas Muller, and I want to be like me.

My real name was Thomas Jones Woodward, so I dropped the Woodward.

Everybody has their role in the food world and what they choose to appreciate. I'm not a fine dining chef. I appreciate it. I think Thomas Keller is amazing. But I really like where I'm at; I like what I do. I like how it makes people feel.

I'm the most awkward person in the world, but onstage, I'm completely fine. I could run around in a thong and not care.

You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.

I don't take a stance to score political points. That's not what I'm about. That's not why the people hired me. If I do take a stand on something, it's because I've thoroughly researched it.

So I view acting as a thoroughly involved performance with the maximum of sincerity and devotion.

When you're a girl, you have to be everything, You have to be dope at what you do, but you have to be super sweet, and you have to be sexy, and you have to be this and you have to be that and you have to be nice, and you have to - it's like, I can't be all of those things at once. I'm a human being.

I don't like to say things that I wouldn't want to say to someone's face. Those are my morals for life.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.

It all has to come from inside, though, I guess.

When I'm kissing someone, I don't want to feel as though I'm rubbing off all the makeup that's on their face or messing things around. I think natural is better.

One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It's a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you're old friends.

People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I've never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn't me at all.

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

I don't see myself in competition with anyone, I am in my own space; I don't follow anyone, though I appreciate good work always.

My thing about looking good is that it should be the character. If I'm playing a character who's concerned about his body - an athlete, say - I'll get in shape. If I'm playing a character who doesn't or wouldn't, I don't. I almost never get in shape for a movie, even though I know it would be a good career move.

I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized and made a member of the church on Sunday morning, you still had to be 'saved' on Sunday night. I wanted to be saved, but I did not think you should fake it.

It's become my brand in a way, you know, speaking the truth even though it was not politically correct.

There's something about live players that you cannot get with machines: With live musicians, you can strike a groove, you can feed off each other... And, even though somebody might make a slight mistake, it's all real!

I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was.

I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.