George Raft Quotes

People are at their best when they can be natural. And that's the hardest thing as a photographer.

I don't think I would be a good actor! People enjoyed 'Dancing With the Stars' because I was myself, and every time they told me to say something, I would say my own words, so I don't think I could follow a script well!

I can't imagine a duller fate than being the best-dressed woman in reality. When I want to do something, I don't pause to contemplate whether I'm exquisitely gowned. I want to live, not pose!

I've always really been a fan of scenes in which you're able to be as natural as you want.

For me to act natural and real but also try to be funny while doing that is hard.

When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how you feel, then there is naturally self-respect.

I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves.

The things that are more my own style are something that I don't really have to think about. The only time I have to think about them is if I want to force myself not to do it the way I do it.

I want to embrace my full self, as natural as I can be.

Just keep doing 'you', and being who you are and doing what feels natural to you.

I have the confidence that I can take anybody and have them give a good performance, because I don't think there's anything to acting except expressing, being able to converse. So if I can just convince somebody not to clean themselves up, and not to be someone that they're not, and just be what they are in given circumstances, that's all that acting is to me, and I don't think it's very difficult.

I don't want to always be 'the best I can be.' I just want to be me.

I can only show what I have received from the characters. That's what's scary because you're never going to be everyone's taste and you don't want to let people down. But, I can only do what I can do.

What makes all those women sexy? Were they just born sexy? I guess it's the way they act. I don't want to have to act sexy. I just want to be me, and if I don't happen to be sexy, oh well. That's OK. I don't want to force something I'm not.

If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.

I want to show my true self, not how I want to be seen by others.

I want to be myself. That's when you feel the most comfortable, that's when you have the most success, and that's when you're the most happy.

I am 100% there when I'm doing what I'm doing when I'm onstage and recording. I don't ever want to look back at any moment and say to myself that I felt uncomfortable with who I am.

I don't want to be anything other than me.

I don't try to be anything. I just want to play my game.

Always be natural. Putting on airs will make a giggle out of you. Be yourself and if you don't know something say so.

I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.

I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not by being whatever. Sometimes I act like a jerk, but I think people respect me for being myself. That's the ultimate thing about the Smashing Pumpkins.

Be authentic and organic. It can't be forced or it won't work. And most importantly, have fun.

If you don't live what you sing about, your mirror is gonna fade.