Quotes About Authenticity

'Billboard' needs to tell the truth, shake things up.

I don't know any real billionaires.

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

I think 'Billy on the Street' is a big show, but why do a show if you won't make it original and unique and powerful?

I read a lot of biographies, and so much is just so boring or so, like, 'Why did you say that?'

My life isn't really that different from a biological female.

I want to show people my successful side, but I want to show you my bipolar side, too.

I am who I am. I'm from Birmingham. My mum works at Sainsbury's. My dad is a fire-fighter. We keep it real. We know who we are. I haven't made a lot of money, but I'm equally comfortable. I have food, clothes on my back, and my family.

The people want to know is Walter straight, homosexual, metrosexual, bisexual - I don't care. Here I am, I am who I am, that's it.

I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.

Being bisexual doesn't mean I'm suddenly willy-nilly running around.

You got a snaggletooth? Show it off. You have an overbite? Bite some more.

I always felt like reality was a bizarre place, and everybody was really good at being normal, and I didn't know how to do it.

My actual real name is Bianca Blair.

I am not a farceur. I am not Blake Edwards.

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things.

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

I don't want to be white. I don't want to be straight. I don't want to blend in.

I'm not a blender. I don't like people who blend into society.

People who watch 'The Blind Side,' they're not going to have a chance to get to know me. People I'm close to, as long as they know me, know who I am, I don't have a problem with it.

I cannot just blindly love someone.

All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they would walk and blink how they would blink. I used to talk about it bad like, 'Aw man, that person made $10 million a movie?' But now I understand why they do. I get it now.

I hate it when you see in films people with their anoraks flapping open in a blizzard. They'd be dead in a couple of minutes. It's got to be real. It's got to work.