Quotes About Authenticity

I'm definitely not a bad guy in real life.

All I know is real life. I don't know how to act. I don't know how to pretend.

I did not enter the industry to create a certain image. People happened to see me as the friend/sister/daughter next door. I like that association very much. It's close to what I am in real life. As for films, I just focus on the job.

Don't buy anything online that you'd laugh at buying in real life.

What you bring to the stage is what you are in real life... people sense that.

I need to fill myself up with real life. That's kind of the well I draw from.

I'm not very funny at all in real life.

If you read scripts, you would see people rarely speak like that in real life, in complete sentences.

Part of me has always wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe or any Fifties Hollywood starlet. On screen, they seemed so sexy and simple and looked after. In real life, I'm none of those things. But I'd rather be fierce and complicated.

Every day, there is a person following me, taking pictures. It's bizarre because I'm just going to the gym or getting a smoothie. I don't have the time or energy to be constantly put together all the time, but that's real life.

In real life, I'm a large character, and I need the space and platform to be large.

J. Tillman was kind of an alter ego. There was a lot I didn't want people to know about my real life. With Father John Misty, I leave everything in: so much so that I lose sleep before these albums come out because there is always a line or two in there where I'm just like, 'This is not going to go down very well.'

I'm not as extreme in real life as I am in the ring or on television.

I find that there's so much funny stuff in real life, and I am much more interested in super grounded, real stuff, so now I just want things to feel real and authentic.

People ask about love. Real love. I was never in love; the people around me didn't love me. They were just along for the ride.

When you listen to music, you can tell if it's a real love song or not.

I want real love.

Like, if I'm assessing someone's game and they can't shoot, they can't shoot. And they know they can't shoot. It's not like I'm making fun of them. I just keep it real, man.

I love attempting to play real people. I like to try and have dramatic moments as well as comedic moments, and my favorite thing is when those two lines are blurred.

MasterChef's' about real people and for real people. It's aspirational and inspirational. There's nothing snobbish about it.

I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.

I've played real people before, but I never knew them.

I think people are interesting enough. People with mental illness, or just real people going through real circumstances in life.

I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.