Quotes About Authenticity

You must not believe your own PR; it would be grotesque.

The grotesque has never really affected or frightened me. I guess it's real-life stuff that frightens me much more.

I think people believe that I give an aura of someone who has both feet on the ground.

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

I'm grounded in who I am.

I've had to wean myself away to make sure that any choices I make are grounded in myself rather than the seeking of approval.

The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.

Acting is not about showing what you're feeling. It's about doing something. It's about what you're doing for the other person. Anything other than 'doing' is not grounded in the truth.

I just like playing guys, normal dudes. That's the stuff that I really enjoy watching: when it feels grounded.

I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I'd been given, not made up out of whole cloth.

I have my friends who like me because I'm me and not because I'm in films, and that's really important to me. They tell me, 'You look terrible; don't wear that,' or 'That joke wasn't funny,' and that's really important: they keep me grounded.

I feel I need to have people outside of show business who keep me grounded and define who I am.

I see it in a lot of period pieces where everybody is standing and talking, in a stilted, archaic way, instead of being loose in the world. So, I try to do a little bit of research, just so that I can feel like I'm grounded, but then I try to bring as much of my human understanding that I can, under the filter of it being 1865.

I like playing these characters who are just on the edge of ridiculous but always grounded in reality. I would never want to come across as a cartoon.

I'm grounded, I can say that. I can say that. I am, and it's great. I don't know where it comes from. But I've always been like that.

I feel just in terms of knowing who is real, who has got your back, and who's there for you is what helps you stay grounded and real.

I have my go-to products. It's hard not to come off very self-promoting, but the truth is, I don't make any product that I don't personally wear. In terms of things I can't live without, my Lock-It Foundation and my Featherweight Primer set the groundwork for my makeup.

The groupies are far more real now than there were then.

In an age when so many groups are rolling out restaurants faster than your local baker makes donuts, my goal is that each restaurant feels hand-crafted. That they have their own soul.

Half the stuff I have done which has been successful would never have been made if it had been shown to focus groups.

With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.

I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.

It's the most ridiculous business to be in. It's full of people who have never grown up.

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older.