Elisabeth Moss Quotes

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

When you're being real, that's endearing to an audience. When you're not being real and you're making jumps to things that don't really follow how they would in reality, people don't appreciate that.

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

The best stories come out of the truth.

When I'm creating characters, I just want to create characters that I can relate to, and be as honest about them as people as I can be. That's what I want to see when I go to the movies.

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

Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true.

Anytime I hear songs that are so honest, whether they make the person who's singing it look good or not, there's a level of honesty that resonates with people.

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.

People like a bit of honesty in films.

I hope that people can relate to my music, it's very relatable, it's very fun, it's very honest. It's very, very, honest. I know that my fans will probably learn a lot about me by listening to my music, if they really listen to the lyrics. I'm sure they'll learn about a new side to me, it's all very honest, I don't put on any... there's no fake-ness to it, it's very real and I hope my fans can relate to it and that it's enjoyable for all ages.

Keeping it real is the key and I don't know how they've done that week after week. I think the key is that everybody can sort of empathize with [The Office].

I've come to realize that people connect more when they know you're telling them the truth or some aspect of your story, some mutated version of how you are experiencing this life.

You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it's real. I don't think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can't fool everybody.

A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living.

You can't write nothing that ain't real.

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.

I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface.

You don't need to over-dramatise life, you can just reflect it. It's more interesting, in a way, if it appears to ring true.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.

I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.

I think little things are more powerful because they're more honest, so people feel them more strongly.

I'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.

And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.