Bob Odenkirk Quotes

How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious--insolent & whimsical I must appear!--one moment flighty and half mad,--the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.

I try to be genuine. I try to be real. It's such a subjective thing, but I try to convey an emotion.

Sometimes the best way to make 'em laugh is to show 'em how you honestly feel.

True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

I don't think you should try to be anything you're not. If you're not smiling all the time or always happy - I don't think it matters. If you're having bad day, show you're having a bad day. Don't try to put up something that's fake.

As a comedian, I think you need to keep things real.

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

I can't fake emotion.

I can't pretend that I'm happy or pretend to get emotional when I'm not.

Everything I say, it comes from the heart. It's all real.

Don't fake what you feel. I've never been about that. I never will be about that.

I feel like when I say something sad, I mean it.

Emotional sounds don't lie.

You have to be so honest in comedy.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

Acting is about being real, being honest.

I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.

The only thing more important than being good is being real. Authenticity is kinder than resignation without conviction. Truth leads to good faster than good leads to truth. Ultimately truth is good, but you have to live it from the inside out.

If you're striving for strong emotion and strong sentiment, and you're authentic with it and honest with it, then you're on the right side of the line. But if you step into sentimentality, there is a false move or a false tone to it.

It's very important to be as transparent, as real as possible, as a person.

You know what, I just write what I feel.

In interviews, on the set, talking to people, I'll just start talking about my parents' divorce, and go on and on. My mom's always like, 'You don't have to be that honest. You have to be more fake.' You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.

At the end of the day, my sole goal, when I go into any scene, is to try to be as honest as I possibly can, and then everything else is second. The most important thing for me is to just be as honest as I possibly can.

All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.

I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real