Rebecca Traister Quotes

I'm not a theatrics guy who does things for effect. Whatever comes out is what I feel. It just comes out.

I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.

I just think the more you're in front of camera, the better: my main aim is just to tell the truth, be natural, and believe in what I'm doing, and hopefully that comes across as a rawness.

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.

The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.

I don't really like 'acting' - I like things to feel as natural as possible.

I've always been exactly who I am on TV. I'm not playing a role.

People like seeing people being human and real, and I think that's been lacking on TV.

I think that I'm pretty much who you see onscreen. Are there times when I ask questions of people and have a sense of what their answer may be? Sure. I think that you can't deny that. But you still want to hear from that person, even though you may anticipate what they may say. I am as natural right now as I am when I talk to somebody in the Middle East. It's just trying to be a real person to them. So long as I can be as honest with myself when I make a movie like that, I can continue to be honest with you.

People can sense when someone is fake or real on TV.

With an audience it's now, there are no editors around. It's just me and the audience and it's what I like best.

I feel strongly that I need to try to make my shows as real as possible. What you see is what you get.

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to.

This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.

A spontaneous interview feels differently than anything else you see on television.

The hardest thing is that I never do anything the same way twice, and when I'm on the air, I'm very unscripted, and I'm very comfortable in that role. So me being scripted is not a comfortable place for me.

However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.

I don't know why people think I'm this ad-lib dude.

Scripts are corny and predictable. Real life is always better.

Doing the press has become as much of a job as getting in front of the camera. You have to avoid burnout, avoid saying anything stupid, but still come across as yourself.

I really don't act. I just live what George and I are doing. It has to make some sort of sense to me, or it won't ring true. No matter what the script says, there's no audience and no footlights and no camera for me. There's no make-believe. It's for real.

I remember when I first started modeling, and I would read interviews with people. Then I would see them, and they would always say something entirely different to a crowd of people than they would say privately. I always found that really offensive.

I thought if I just told the truth, the human truth, it'd be the truth for everyone.

One thing about America is Americans are real people. So it's like, if they see that you're real, this is real, then they're gonna relate to it.