Quotes About Authenticity

As an actor, I love playing something kind of outside of who I am as a real person.

I'm am really a real person.

In the end, I'm a racer, I'm not a model, obviously. I lost about a foot of my height for that. And in the end, I'm not trying to be one. I'm trying to be a real person. Try to be a racer.

People respond to real problems from the heart.

We're a very close family and we're a very real family, and I think every real family has real problems.

With WesTrac, you have real people doing real jobs with real problems and real opportunities, and you touch the metal, and it's like being grounded.

I look at a show like 'Roseanne.' That's super influential on me. It's very funny, very real, with real problems. That was a big influence, and I don't know if you see that all the time in the network world.

We felt if we didn't have new material in us and we didn't have a real reason to exist, then we probably wouldn't have done an 80's revival thing. We are very conscious about the fact that's what we are as a bunch of people.

When I got to Nashville, people started asking me about how I got into country music. I'd tell them I came from a place where people wore cowboy hats for a real reason.

I would never put my close friends or a real relationship on a show.

People don't understand real musicians anymore. Jack White is great - he's the real thing - but he isn't having hits.

The next couple of jobs will determine, at least from a business point of view, if I'm a guy who's actually the real thing or I'm a guy who's had a nice moment.

At the end of the day, if you're going to buy a can of Coke, you want the real thing.

Bob Dylan's not a hype and a haircut: he's the real thing.

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing.

They're just actors. I much prefer the real thing!

I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.

For me, luxury isn't just the real thing. It's also fake. Swarovski crystals or real diamonds? It's a game.

If you're going to buy pasta, you should buy dry pasta. If you're going to make it you can make the real thing, but you shouldn't buy fresh pasta.

It is not a computer generated image, like you see on TV or some movie in Hollywood - this is the real thing a guy built, a rocket he's sitting in it and he can be dead in 10 seconds.

You can't have the real thing on camera - that's the nature of cinema. When you see people like Daniel Day-Lewis and Ralph Fiennes screaming and hyperventilating, you're seeing the phoniest kind of bad acting. You may as well have a 'men at work' sign. It's not acting if you can see it.

I think the best research is people you meet and things that they say, rather than second hand accounts of something. I think when you meet someone and talk to them, then you get the real thing and that's what you can use. That's the material you can actually put on the page.