Quotes About Sincerity

Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.

The camera or the microphone in the booth is merciless. If you don't believe what you're saying, it hears it. If you don't believe it, it sees it in your eyes, it hears it in your voice that there isn't the conviction there.

The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.

So the laughs had to come from the character, not because we had balloons in our shirts or were speaking in high voices. That was very important to us.

I passionately believe if you put on an act, the audience will be able to tell. That does not mean that I am going to be talking in top volume all the time in private conversations... Clearly, broadcasting has to be an extension of yourself; it's an exaggerated version of you.

If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.

I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.

I don't want to put up this act of being a voracious reader, which I am not.

If you're out there saying something that you don't personally believe, then it doesn't really matter if a voter agrees with what you're saying. If they don't believe that you believe it, then they're not going to listen to you anyway.

Voters aren't asking to be pandered to and aren't asking to be tricked.

Voters crave authenticity.

I just think, you know, when we talk about a politician, I think a person has to be themselves. Let the voters see the real you.

Voters are okay with you believing something they don't believe, as long as they think you genuinely believe it, and you believe it because you care about them.

I just make music that I love. I'm kind of selfish when I make music. I'm like, 'Do I like this?'

I can never sell something that I don't believe in.

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

If your heart's not into what you're selling, you're not going to make it.

Selling out is when you do something that you don't naturally want to do.

The biggest affront to any audience is if you feel like someone took something you love and is selling it out.

I'm just really bad at selling anything I don't actually use or like.

I don't believe in either selling or marketing myself.

I would never be a sellout, but you can never be a sellout to kids. Kids is kids!

Whatever I do, whether it sells or not, at least I mean it at the time and I'm honest about it. Which I think is the only way to be.

We need to be our natural selves.