Quotes About Authenticity

I was well into adulthood before I was prepared to acknowledge the simple fact that I am gay. It took years of struggle and growth for me to recognize that it's just a fact of life, like having brown hair, and part of who I am.

I don't have an act. I just talk. I'm just Lenny Bruce.

Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.

If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.

If I can't even be bothered to brush my hair, I don't think I should start getting face work... I think it would look a bit try-hard.

I like girls who look like they never brush their hair. That's the key to real style.

I think it's important to be kind of brutally honest without making anyone else feel bad in any way, if possible.

My parents are really honest when they watch something. My nan is brutally honest. She'll tell me, 'Oh, you looked awful in that scene,' and I'm like, 'Well, I was giving birth at the time, so it probably worked with the character, Nan.'

I couldn't continue to live in a bubble and hope to be an empathic actor. It doesn't work.

I might just not be a big-city bug.

It really bugs me when people say I've had a nose job.

You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

I liked being Eddie the Eagle, but I also like being Michael Edwards, plasterer and general builder.

I've got nothing against selling out, but just let me do it for something that matters. Not so I can be Number One With a Bullet, as it were, but so I can leave this world feeling like I made a difference.

I do feel like I'm a little too much of a bummer sometimes.

I don't have time to sit down and airbush my lumps and bumps. I don't want to either, because they're all a part of my life and what I've been through and who I am.

You don't want a whole bunch of yes people around you.

We don't ever want to be this political band. We're just a bunch of dudes.

Doing the press has become as much of a job as getting in front of the camera. You have to avoid burnout, avoid saying anything stupid, but still come across as yourself.

I want to hold a CD I didn't burn. I hate burnt CDs.

I've got to write about my character every day. I've got to find out where he lives, what bus he catches to school, and stuff like that. You've got to know every little thing about him so when you do it, it feels natural.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

Facebook succeeded because it was about real people having a presence on the Internet. There were all these other social networking sites people had, but they were all about fictional people.

I think my initial view of it is that 'The Room' has succeeded in being the best bad movie because it's the most earnest. I feel like it's a film that comes from the heart, and somebody's really trying to send a message about their life and their view on the human experience.