Quotes About Sincerity

It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.

I try not to do tricks because I don't want to be caught with it. It's a risk.

I've always been 100%. I don't grandstand for the cameras. I don't have fake outrage or indignation. No tricks, no screaming or throwing my leg on the floor.

I have tried to be honest with every single character that I have played because I don't know the methods or I don't know tricks to act.

I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

All I really want to do is play, that's all that matters. I don't think I've ever tried to cultivate an image. Everything has been on instinct. The flannel shirt and jeans, for example... those are the clothes I wear. If I wore anything else on stage, I wouldn't feel comfortable.

I have never tried to impress anyone, including my parents.

I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.

I think the important thing is that I've never tried to be someone I'm not. People can read right through that.

I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image.

All I've ever tried to do is play real people.

I've never tried to be something I'm not.

I love pop music. I've tried to always be honest about that.

I tried to do the commercial thing. But I don't want to keep shoving Twinkies down everyone's throat. People are hungry for something of more substance.

I think acting's very natural. It comes from a place of honesty, and if someone tries to teach you their way of doing it, that could be quite damaging.

There's a difference between fake hustle for show and being someone who tries hard to win.

If a show ever tries to be cool, then it's going to be doing something wrong.

When I am on stage, I am just an honest artiste who tries to let people know me, not only as a musician, but also as a person.

I don't do like diva trips and stuff.

A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time. We congratulate a rival on a triumph when actually we are choking on spite. We are cordial and attentive to crashing bores.

I have no trouble being a good dude because that's what I am.

I have trouble watching singers because they are so sincere.

No life is perfect; we all have our problems and issues, and I believe that it's good to be true to who you are.

I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.