Brooke Burke Quotes

You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.

My interviewing style and my approach to things is that, yes, it's okay to be sincere; it's okay to be yourself; it's okay to be real.

I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

It's easy to get by on a facade of fancy style, but sooner or later, people are going to see through it. I'm trying to be as honest as possible.

It is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky..but to express oneself honestly not lying to oneself, now that my friend is very hard to do

When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.

Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am.

I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

I'd rather tell you how I really feel.

I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.

I am not good at first or second impressions, and you have to spend some time with me to know me. Also, I don't want to put my best foot forward and prove something, as that is not me. I would rather be me and have you like me for who I am, instead of being someone else.

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.

I just like talking, and I'm really truthful. Sometimes things come out of my mouth, and I think, 'Maybe I shouldn't have said that,' but at the end of the day, I am who I am! When I'm not acting, I'm going to be fully Hayley Hasselhoff, and that's what you're going to get. And I enjoy that.

I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and say hello, I want to feel like I'm really meeting that person, not a masked version. I want to give that to people when they meet me. You don't have to like it. I'm not looking for you to like it; I'm looking to be myself.

When you're true to yourself - not the audience that reads about me in the newspaper or sees a clip someplace, but the audience that actually comes and watches, just like Oprah - they get to know you and they sense something genuine.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be.

I think the most important thing is to be yourself and be genuine and don't try to tell anybody else's story but your own. And if it comes from a genuine place, I think people can tell, and if it doesn't, I think people can tell, and I think that eventually it shows.

2020 for me is a really big year of realness and authenticity and just being who I am.

I don't try to represent myself in a way that's not connected with my everyday reality, because I'm not smart enough to do that.

Thanks to social media, we've also been able to show ourselves as we are. In the end, masks are useless. You have to be real.