Quotes About Sincerity

I do use reality because I want my work to feel real, I want it to feel heartfelt. I don't want to make it up and have it sound corny or unrelatable.

That's part of the curse: If you're gonna play the song, you better play it. I've tried to phone in 'Jeremy' a few times, and it's tough. It doesn't work.

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.

When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you're like that. They just want you to be normal.

I would say my work is anti-ironic.

I work really hard on the shows and I think the shows speak for themselves. I don't want to construct the show to prove something.

I work hard, like I'm sure everyone else does, and I'm very honest with the work I do.

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

I think the success of my work stems from being truthful.

The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.

Be honest with God and ask Him to give you a willingness to do the work of prayer.

I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living.

Stick to your heart.

Stick with your heart and you'll be fine.

I try to stick with things that I can sing with honesty.

I'm sticking to the script, I'm putting that organic feeling back in the game.

It sounds cliche, but if someone is willing to be themselves and not try too hard to someone they're not - that sticks. That is what makes an amazing first impression.

I will not do a role that I don't think I can do, that I'm not interested in, where there's no humanity, that doesn't have any kind of handle for me at all because I know I'll just stink the joint up.

If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you.

I think about what I say. I don't give stock answers. I'm not trying to cultivate an image with the public, like several of the top players do.

I stopped acting Romeo and just became Romeo.