Quotes About Authenticity

I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.

In real life, I'm very rational, and I'm not very dramatic.

I don't want to write lines where characters tell me exactly how they feel; I want to see people talk about anything but their feelings, like they do in real life.

I don't want real life necessarily to be seen only as a context to heighten the deepness my work.

I think it is important to make sure that I have my real life as well, because Hollywood can certainly seem like an alternate reality sometimes.

In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.

I have never been afraid to go a bit out there with what I am wearing on film. I tend to be a bit more conservative in real life, with mountains of black in my closet.

We live a pretty real life within our Hollywood selves. I'm not working 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, by any means.

I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.

I'm very comfortable with an R-rating. I feel like it sounds like what people talk like in real life; I think it's more real to me.

I've never been all that comfortable in real life.

My characters all have issues, but I don't see that as weird or abnormal because I think in real life there are very few bland, normal people.

All I can say is I was a lot more discreet as a candidate than I was in real life. Can I say that? Maybe it's indiscreet to talk about discretion.

The Tracy Morgan you see is the Tracy Morgan in real life. He's a great guy but... man, is he a nut.

I don't do much lying in real life because I don't get away with it.

People come up to me and say, 'You look so much better in real life.'

You are always invested in a film, but there is always a different feeling you get when you are portraying a character that is based on real life and you are re-telling events that actually took place.

I'm so different to the roles I play, and perhaps that's why they are appealing to me as an actor. But I would never want to inhabit my characters' shoes in real life.

I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love songs cuz I don't really have much boy experience. I just write about what I am actually going through in my real life.

Nobody's perfect, and everybody plays the heel and the baby face at times in real life.

Anyone who wants to offer me as mushy, earthy, crunchy a role as they can, I will probably take it. In real life, I cry at a drop of a hat, and I'm a mom, and I'm pretty mushy! We all have so many colors as actors that we want to show.

The best stories come from real life.

I've just always been interested in alter-naturalism and seeing if you can make real life interesting enough to be dramatic without enhancing it. Like, could you make a movie or write a play in which there's no compression of time, there's no enhanced event, it's just real life?

It's funny to be playing a mom. I mean, I'm not a mom in real life. I don't even have a dog.