Nicola Roberts Quotes

I'm real. I'm not polished.

I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can.

You want to be honest with a character and play it truthfully, and you want to be genuine with your character.

Why do a reality show if you're going to be fake?

I have had enough of an interesting life to not embellish it in any way.

Oh, everything we did was completely organic - from the way we looked to the way we sounded, the way we played - everything.

The most important thing to me is that it's all really raw.

Young people are craving something real, craving authenticity.

Now if you know anything, or one thing about Perez Hilton, I think, is that I am not fake and I keep it real.

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

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 always like earthy, authentic sounds.

I don't think I'm complicated at all. I'm not political, and I'm not trying to be diplomatic. I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, and I don't say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There's no trying to fool somebody.

I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.

I feel strongly that I need to try to make my shows as real as possible. What you see is what you get.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

The best stories come out of the truth.

This is not a sham, not a game. This is the real stuff.

I'm genuine and people can believe what I say.

I think people respond to me as a down-to-Earth, girl-next-door person, because I am one of those people. That's something I don't have to act very hard at.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

In my heart, I'm 100% real. You can't pull out nothing in my past that can say I'm not 100% real.

I like to have the impression that whatever is happening is true.

I'm going for something very raw and organic.