Quotes About Genuineness

People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!

One of the worst things you can give to your people is someone you're not.

The worst thing you can do in a leadership position is be something you're not.

I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.

I don't try to be likeable. The worst thing people do is present versions of themselves to the world that aren't real.

I've been wearing white since my college days. I like color, but if I wear colored clothes now, it would feel like I'm being false. And that's the worst thing I could be.

If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Just not worth it.

There's no drugs, no Tom in a dress, no psychiatrists.

You wouldn't meet a Joe Frazier down today and then up tomorrow, said hello to big shots then ignore someone on the lower level; he was the most consistent human being. What you see is what you get.

I can't tone it down. I'm being me and being myself.

I work really hard not to have a kitsch tone to any of my work, particularly radio stuff, which sometimes goes in that direction on certain programs.

Instagram is not a place for tone or irony.

I'm not the sexiest thing in the world, I feel actors who have to 'play' sexy lose all their sex appeal. When they start with the tongue and the heavy lids, it looks so ridiculous. I think you just have to be yourself.

When you open up 'Instagram,' you need to know that you're seeing the real Tony Hawk, the real Taylor Swift, the real Burberry.

Life is too short to play-act if you don't have to.

I don't like it when people are trying too hard. That goes for clothes, for acting, for everything. It's just not good when it seems like you're making too much of an effort.

I never took any elocution lessons, no diction lessons. I might have been a pretty decent broadcaster if I had, but what you see, I'm afraid, is what you get.

To be honest, there is going to be no 'Top Boy America.'

Typically, actors overplay jargon or toss it away in an extravagant display of casualness. Real people hit the important parts hard.

All I really care about is that I'm being honest and I'm real and I'm coming from a real place. There's a part of me that's a total cad and a part of me that's also a family man.

I don't play a character. It's totally just an extension of myself.

I think there is a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real but look so artificial at the same time.

One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.

The world ain't worth nothing unless you true in it.