Quotes About Authenticity

Louis Armstrong said you have to live a life. And that's right. If you don't live a life, you don't got nothin' to come out your horn.

I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.

You don't need to be famous to live a life as an artist.

I would never wanna do a show that's strictly maudlin and invaded my personal life and my home. I would never do that.

All my life I've tried to make everybody happy while I just hurt and hide, waiting for someone to tell me it's my turn to decide.

A lot of times I play a fat woman with cats who has no boyfriends. And in real life, I'm allergic to cats and I've had a boyfriend since college.

I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife.

I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life.

I think I lead a really real life.

If you don't live a normal life, how do you relate to people?

I feel like I'm kind of an obvious person. I like to keep some things in my life sacred, like keep the sacred, sacred. Apart from that part of my life, I'm a very open person.

So often, I read scripts and am like, 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious.

Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.

I think, if you put a camera in anyone's life and document it daily from the age of 21 to 27, there are going to be things that aren't always pretty.

In my own life, I have no problems letting out a good scream.

I like the idea of quietly putting music out there and seeing what it does for itself, to let it take it's own life and see if people respond to it, simply because of what it is.

Life's so much easier when you're not always maintaining two worlds: the one formed of lies, which feels real, and the one you live in, which often feels like lies. So easy to get them confused.

As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene.

Definitely giving it my heart and soul from my life as I see it. That whole album [My Brother] is like that, that's how I feel.

This is the life I live, and this is the stuff I experience. And like any good writer, I should just write about what goes in my life and what goes on around me. So that's what I chose to do.

Lead the least secretive life you can.

Why would I want to read something about somebody that's just a really nice, decent person who overcomes terrible trials? That's not how life is to me.

You have to not only live your life in spite of people who don't understand you, you have to have more fun than they do.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.