Quotes About Authenticity

I try not to do scenes a certain way, because then I become conscious of it, and it dosen't come off as realistic. I try to make it so that I'm not really aware of what I'm doing.

Real acting is realistic no matter what the medium.

'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I was playing myself. Whether it's a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible.

Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.

I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit.

As an actor, it's my job to prepare myself for a role. If the character is realistic, one can't go wrong.

Maybe people don't see me as believable playing a person of today. I guess I'm just more realistic in a corset and funny hairstyles.

I talk periodically with the producers at EA and I try to be as honest as possible because as great as EA does, you just don't want to hear good things. These people are really passionate about making games and making them as realistic as possible.

There is such a cliche to certain roles that all I can do is to try to make them realistic and work for the times, and so the audience actually won't see me as a caricature of something, but rather as an actual person.

I love playing characters who are multilayered and multidimensional and have a darkness to them, which makes them more realistic and more fun to play.

In terms of my looks in 'Brothers,' it's definitely not a glamourised look. It is very realistic.

I am a bad actress. I know I am. I am realistic. I can't even lie properly; how can you expect me to act?

You can say to actors that you've got to be the character and really get into it, but you have to make it realistic by bringing an element of yourself into it.

I don't like high concept movies very much, and the kind of scripts that I would occasionally get offered tended to be really high concept comedies or romantic comedies. I just don't like it. I like much more realistic movies with actual psychology and behavior in them.

I can't dance like Hrithik Roshan. I don't have the necessary glamour like some of the other actors do. They are able to sell themselves on that aspect. I do roles and films which are very realistic. So, in those films, if you don't get into the skin of it, they won't look convincing.

In my mind, if you write a comedy where human beings experience pain, you're just being realistic.

It's hard for me to consider something in cinema or theater as something realistic.

People have told me that the dialogue in '100 Bullets' is very realistic. I don't agree.

It's so important for us to write complex, realistic women because that's what we are.

I've become a huge fan of small films and realistic roles.

With realistic and deglamourised roles and live sound, the charisma of a star is not enough. Can you be many different people?

I like to lean on making wrestling the most believable, realistic form of entertainment as possible for the most part.

I rarely get to be part of realistic films.

If I want to do realistic cinema and convince the audience in authentic roles, I have to walk the extra mile.