Quotes About Authenticity

The danger is you never know if people are actually saying what they mean. I've learned you never know how someone will react.

When you listen, as a human being and an actor, you can react authentically.

The emotions you see when you watch 'Narcos,' they're pretty much my emotions and the way I would react if I were there. It's not something you create; all of us have everything inside ourselves.

You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.

I've never really been a character on TV. I think, if possible, you want to portray yourself. If you're in a situation where you're supposed to react, you need to react.

Earlier, I used to try to act, but now I just react naturally. I feel the scene and then do it. Emotions, feelings just flow in naturally.

You decide how to show up, and you'd better come correct: the way you look, what you say, how you act and react. No excuses! Get in front of the mirror and own what you see. You may have to drag your fabulousness out of hiding, but it's there.

All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They are not about, 'Oh, did it get a good review in the Guardian?' I don't care.

I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.

The key to acting is less acting and just reacting.

Feeling and reacting has more impact than just trying to emote what your character's saying.

If the actors aren't reacting the way people would react, that's where you step into disbelief.

The best way to test whether you are saying the truth or not - if you say something and people don't react then it's not the real truth. But if people start reacting then what you are saying has got an element of truth.

I am not like Hitchcock, directing the reaction of the public or the audience. I don't like that. I think this is some kind of fascism - 'You need to react like that.' No. No. It's not like this; everyone needs to react as he can.

If I feel like making something, if I feel like saying something on the track, that's what I am going to do - regardless of reaction.

Have you ever heard someone tell a story but felt they are just mouthing the words without being emotionally connected? When you do this, you often create a more negative reaction than if you hadn't told a story at all. That's because others can see that you're just going through the motions.

I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.

I want to take the time to think through how I feel and why I feel. I don't want to feign expertise on matters I know nothing about for the purpose of offering someone else my immediate reaction for their consumption.

Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.

People don't step outside themselves and make the film they want to make, because they're afraid of the reaction. But once you get that reaction and have lived through it, there's nothing they can do to get you down.

I'm very careful not to tell a joke just to get a reaction.

If I try to act cool and do things that get a positive reaction, then I'm not doing anything for the person I'm in the ring with.

I'm going to shock you with the truth. I'm just going to give it to you raw, and however you take it, I'm just going to watch your reaction.

This is my definition of selling out: When you change what you do or do what you do as a reaction to someone else's expectations or lack of expectations.