Quotes About Authenticity

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.

I just write like a grown man, because that's what I listen to. I'm not even speaking complicated English... I don't do five-syllable words, I don't do four-syllable words. This is English. Rudimentary English.

I feel like, if you're writing the same songs you were writing when you were 17 in your 30s, something's wrong. As a grown man, you're more confident, and you have less to prove.

When you're young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume.

I'm not very good with conventional, prim-and-proper people who are well-behaved, grown-up.

The grunge scene is not what I'm interested in.

No mater what I wear - whether my choice or not- I guarantee I will be me.

When you're a 'product' for a lot of people, they're only really after one thing, and so it's hard to completely let down your guard.

We have to lower our guard and know saying something's wrong isn't a bad thing.

I've got a long list of things I consider to be selling out. But amongst that list, one of them is when you make art without putting your guard down.

I can't be so guarded up all the time. I know it's not healthy.

I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.

I think we should let our guards down a little bit more.

I think part of what makes someone a great actor is being able to walk into a situation emotionally available and open, and have all your guards down, and just have that level of trust and security in yourself to know that you could walk out on that limb with someone else and be safe.

I'm not going to say I'm cool, because I don't really feel that. I just don't care at all, and I guess that's what people think is cool.

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

I'm unpolished, I guess.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

Everything I ask is a question from Tamron, like it or not. My team does not write my questions. We put together a segment. We talk about the elements that I want, but we have a conversation for that hour with our guests.

If I'm asked which is my favourite character to play, I'll definitely say Rosy from 'Guide' because I feel she is very real.

I still got a lot to learn about fashion. I'm somebody who experiments, somebody who's finding their way. I'm young, and I don't really know if there's any guide to style in what's right and what's wrong. I just dress as an extension of how I'm feeling. If I feel crazy, then I'm gonna rock something crazy.

We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of the spirit within. Since God gave us these bodies, they must have been given us as guides to Him and revealers of Him.

We live in a time where we're made to feel guilty about overeating, oversleeping, and not exercising. Garfield not only does all that, but he doesn't apologize for it.