Quotes About Genuineness

I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter.

Fact doesn't have to be plausible; it just has to be fact.

The real Pogba is the one you see every time. You know, when I'm on the pitch, I cannot act. I'm not an actor. So when I'm in the pitch, I like to joke and laugh, and outside the pitch, I'm the same. For me, I'm normal. I come and play football. I do what I love.

As great of a player as Yao was, he was kind and patient with everybody. He wasn't trying to feed an image or cultivate a brand or manipulate a public persona.

It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.

You can't please people who don't really know you and, you know, I do think that one of the things I do want to do is please the people who matter to me and please the people that do know me.

You can't write something to please someone.

Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.

I think comedy has to come from your authentic point of view.

I think the main thing is to continue being true to myself. I'll never do anything just to cater or pander to the audience I have. I need to be 100% behind it too. Otherwise it's completely pointless.

What I don't like is talking points.

Like, if you get close enough to me you'll see how I really am.

I always found that the closer I got to who I really am, on stage, the more they responded to it.

People don't buy from clowns.

As a comedian, I think you need to keep things real.

I'm not really a comedian, innit; I just naturally say things which people class as funny.

I am not a comedian.

You can't just expect anyone to turn comedian because it's something that should come naturally, but not when forced on someone.

What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that are rooted in authenticity.

There is this idea in comedy that you don't want to look like you care about your appearance because that takes away from what's real, what's important. And the real stuff is what's funny.

Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth.

It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.

Positive characterizations are complex characterizations. That's all we need to know. They shouldn't be saccharine. They shouldn't feel like medicine.

When people see me in something and say, 'That's just you - that's not acting,' it's the best compliment I can get.