Quotes About Genuine

It's what Kitty Carlisle said in her book: Don't interview people about what they do, interview them about what they love. I want my interviews to come out of the side pockets.

Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

I'm just a weird mix of immature and intelligent and I like to share my point of view and who I am.

Home is where I climb out of my mecha-suit-of-a-poised-persona and power down.

When I'm doing a film, I love getting together after work with my costars. But we get back to L.A. and I'm like, 'I don't want to go to a club with you, dude. I mean, I think you're rad, and if you want to come play Scrabble with me, that's amazing.'

If you're on Tinder and you're really trying to look for love, that's going too far. You have to be yourself... and find love at the coffee shop, or in your own community.

I'm a blue collar guy.

'Trill' is a combination of 'true' and 'real.' It's my philosophy.

I'm not a comedian.

I am not a comedian.

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

I prefer comedies when they come from a dark kind of place and have a reality to it.

I like the common man character.

I'm not a complicated person.

I'm not very complicated.

I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.

Popular music is one endless love song that, I suspect, the basically solitary Ella Fitzgerald approached much as the basically solitary Marianne Moore approached poetry: reading it with a certain contempt for it, Moore said, you could find a place in it for the genuine.

I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.

Gaga the person is much like Gaga the celebrity. She is very sweet, loyal, and funny with her fans, and she is very sweet, loyal, and funny with her friends. On stage, she is over-the-top, ridiculous, dirty, and genuine on stage, and she is very over-the-top, ridiculous, dirty, and genuine with her friends.

I grew up on the beach and I grew up surfing and I grew up swimming in this very genuine beach town back in Australia, and it's just something I really want to reflect in my lifestyle and in the way I am, the way I represent myself, the way I dress and the music that I make.

Most people who know me know I'm not switched on all the time. I don't like to be like that in real life, because it's draining.

Me personally, I have a small circle. Part of that is because sometimes, you meet people, and you can feel the synthetic energy.

I like real instruments, and try to stay from anything that sounds too synthetic.

If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'