Nikita Dragun Quotes

I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.'

I think being authentic online and living my life so openly allows people to actually relate to me.

We think you should show your flaws to fans because that's what makes them love you more.

Especially with Instagram, I feel reluctant to make all the photos beautiful because I don't necessarily want to send this message that life is perfect and your avocado toast is always going to be beautifully lit. I want readers to feel like the Man Repeller page is real and kind of dirty. Messy.

I've made it a point to be transparent on my social media and in everything that I present. I never want anyone to think that I'm too fluffy or too perfect.

When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.

It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.

Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.

I can't impress enough upon people that if you tell an honest story that people relate to and people believe and invest in, you can do anything.

I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.

If you show you're human and have something to say, people will connect with you.

I'm very human.

One of the most important things to me is to make things real, not have models who are perfectly groomed or clothes that are too perfect. It all has to have a twist because that's how people live.

I think what people like about my channel is that I am not perfect. I always point to my pimple, my bad hair day... people relate to that. They are watching somebody who is exactly like them and talking about things that they experience as well.

I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.

To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

As a fan, I connect with realness. Whether it's strong or vulnerable, if it's real, I can connect with it.

A lot of the albums that I've been really into are like, 'Oh man. That doesn't make him look like a perfect human. That actually shows his warts and his scars, and for some reason, I'm super drawn to him now because he shared that or she shared that with me.'

As wild and raunchy as Richard Pryor was, people related to his honesty because they found something in their life that they understood.

I tried to live my life really openly and transparently right from the get-go. I think that probably resonated with people.

We don't wake up happy and looking absolutely perfect and feeling amazing every day, you know? We're only human. So I think, with me, I'm not really scared to let people see that - because it's real.

It's not about making it perfect, it's about letting it be real, sometimes raw and flawed, as long as it's true.

Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real.

No one finds it interesting to look at the person who is perfect all the time. They have no flaws. Flaws are what open us up to another person to show that we are not having a veneer, a fake sort of exterior.

I want to be real and relatable, because if I am not, then I lose my credibility among audiences.