Quotes About Genuineness

It's always lovely to discover that the people that you kind of look up to are actually very down-to-earth people.

I loathe people who are disingenuous or inauthentic.

Everyone is different, and I would rather be disliked for who I am than liked for who I am not.

I'm clean but I'm not Disney.

You can be authentic without being distasteful or disrespectful.

I don't really do anything unless it's from the heart - I don't like to joke on people, or distract them from something they love.

You don't want to go and make something, then go out and do shows, if you're not really into it. You don't want to go out there and make people feel like you're grudging playing them a song. That's a disturbing thought.

I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

I'd like to have mass appeal, but not at the expense of what I am and what I do best.

I'll never sing something that I've never been through. So even if I didn't write it, I have to have at least experienced it.

I mean, my stand-up is very honest and exposing in this way. I probably carry that into everything I do.

Your character has to be an extension of yourself, and you got to be comfortable in it. Otherwise, people are going to see right through it. They're going to see that you're acting or that you're playing wrestling.

I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.

I want to have a long career. But that's based on wanting people to buy into my voice and not into a fabricated image.

I can't put on a facade every time I go out.

Fans, and people in general, look to people to take certain things on, and I'm a guy you can take at face value. I speak my mind.

I try and be just completely me on stage. I try and put that across, and people seem to get that personality that I have, so I do try not to become two different people and two different faces.

The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

The bands that do well don't get caught up in fads; they are just true to themselves.

You can't fake listening. It shows.

There's nothing fake about me. And I think there are some people that appreciate that. Even if they hate me, they appreciate the fact that I'm 100 percent authentically me.

As an actor, you don't want to say, 'I'm going to be loud and big.' Because that looks awful; that looks fake.

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.