Quotes About Genuineness

Some people think art is pretending, but to me it's the opposite. It's the one place where you can't pretend.

That's the difference between the real stuff and the crap. I know which one you are and you know which one I am.

I can't lie I can't tell you that I'm something I'm not No matter how I try I'll never be able to give you something Something that I just haven't got

I always come from truth.

I don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's no reason to. And that's why I'm such a boring interview, because I don't go for the shock value, or smartass answers.

I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.

I have no respect for acting where I'm concerned.

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

I'm just me, a normal person.

I'm just a normal person, believe me.

I don't want to be stuck up. I'm just a normal person. My friends think of me as a normal friend, and I like that.

I'm not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I'm just a kid from Mississippi.

But I do always want to be honest, because if you have something in your head that you would like changed or that you think some way, then, I mean, I'm not going to sit up here and be a robot and lie to you. It's not fair to you, it's not fair to me.

I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.

The externals are important but I'm not interested in superficiality.

I'm not interested in fame at all.

I'm not interested in story lines or trash-talk.

I'm not interested in showing the wish of what it looks like to be human. I'm interested in showing what it actually looks like.

I wanted fans to know that I'm human and not perfect.

No matter what you do, your person comes through. You can't completely change yourself on the screen. I had in mind someone colder and more in control, but I couldn't do it. This human note just crept in and maybe it's better.

I think being completely authentic about the time you live in is something that I would view as a career-long objective - to find out what is authentically this moment.

There's a lot of shiny, pretty objects out there that when you actually touch them, they just fall apart. And it's like, you need to be authentic, you need to be yourself.

For me, it's always been so obvious that the less we can edit our lives and more we show how normal we all are, the better.

I'm someone who likes to acknowledge the obvious and not feel like we must do or say things because it's what we're supposed to do.