Quotes About Authenticity

Some players don't like to speak to the media or prefer to talk on live television so people can hear for themselves what is said, in real time.

I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.

Writing is a real activity conducted in real time.

I want to play real people. Real women. I want to be where the fun is - closer to humanity.

What's so kind of beautiful about the whole thing was that everything that made me not right for all of those hundreds of commercial auditions that I went on and no one ever wanted me for is what made me perfectly right for 'Real Women Have Curves'.

Women are often written as one thing - the ingenue or the vamp - but real women are many things.

I've been lucky enough to play lots of real women - flawed, strong, independent women - and I love it.

I love real women that don't have to be saints, who can be selfish and act out against their parents or like the wrong guy, because that's life. That's my life, at least.

We're not always going to be these bubbly, happy girls. We're real women, too.

People want to see real women on screen.

It's really important for women in the public eye to be open - these pop stars who don't look, behave, speak like real women - that's not fair on women. Being real, honest, authentic - too many women in the public eye are afraid to be authentic because they are afraid they will be judged.

I do all that TV stuff, and it's not real work.

When I'm making my own record, it's real work for me.

The difference between Justin Trudeau and myself is I have had real world experience. I haven't just read books on the middle class and what life is like for them. I've lived it.

My confidence comes from the realisation that, actually, the best you can be is you, learning to accept who I was, what I wanted, and that I was more than my body.

Online one day, you log in, and you realise, 'This is not me.' Everything you're posting, you're doing it in the context of everything you've posted before. Let's delete everything, save the stuff that's important, and then you only have to organise the one per cent that's worth keeping.

My depression at the end of Wham! was because I was beginning to realise I was gay, not bi.

There is a level of confidence you need before the day comes when you realise that what makes you different is really the greatest thing.

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

People are intimidated when they first meet me, but it doesn't take them long to realise I'm just an average person.

You don't realise how cool your culture is until you get out of that phase of trying to fit in.

Finally, I've reached a place where if I'm working with an artist, they allow me to just do whatever I feel. Growing up, it was like, 'We want another 'Peaches and Cream.' Then you realise... why would you want a 2001 Mercedes Benz when I'm making 2018 Benzes?

People will get to see I'm real and a straight guy. And they'll realise I can fight as well.

I thought all good art is you doing exactly what you want to see. I didn't realise that's not even what I really like about art. Bands I liked weren't doing just what they want to do: they were finding their common ground with them and me.