Dito Montiel Quotes

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.

I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be.

It's all about the script. Reality is key to me and less cutesy.

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 have no affectation when I speak.

I like to be real. I don't like things to be staged or fussy.

There are no pretensions where I'm from.

Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.

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

I just really like it when things are earnest.

I think I'm pretty simple; what you see is what you get.

I'm real. I'm not polished.

I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray... I am myself the matter of my book.

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.

The simplest things are often the truest.

I don't believe in putting on airs. I call it like I see it.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

When I'm doing a photo shoot, I'm not playing a part. I'm just trying to be myself.

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

It is always the genuine Teemu Selanne that you're seeing. He never puts on a show. It is Teemu. And that's what we love about him.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?'

I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.