Sam Esmail Quotes

I am excited to show people how, when you get older, you get deeper, you get more raw, you get more honest, and you stop pretending to be the person you think people want you to be. I stopped worrying about what people wanted me to say and just sort of dug deep into my personal arsenal of my mistakes and shameful thoughts.

A lot of the work I've done has been about being very raw and open with your emotions.

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.

Having grown up so familiar with creating a pleasing facade, I now end up compelled to reveal things inside and say, 'Okay, now you really see me. Do you still love me?' And then it's never enough; it always has to be total self-revelation.

I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it.

I'm emotionally in tune with my feelings and what people mean to me, and I have no trouble saying it and relating to it.

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

I think I've been incredibly raw my whole career. A lot of people spend a lot of time trying to look cool and spend time being guarded and putting up walls. I just never had the time. It seems more honest to say, 'Hey, this is who I am.'

I think your program has to reflect what your basic feelings are. I'll plead guilty to that.

We tap into something when we're honest about what's going on in our lives.

I started to feel songwriting was pulling different pieces of my heart out - the more I started writing, the more there was honesty.

I just write about how I'm feeling at the time. If I feel like being cheeky and a bit straight up and a bit aggressive, you'll hear that in my music. If I feel like being very vulnerable and opening up about something personal, you'll hear that, too.

I don't believe soul is something you can fake. I'm trying to make my music as real as possible, because I feel this is my form of communicating with the world.

Comedy has so much to do with honesty, and women can be more open about their emotions.

I think a lot of pain in people's lives comes from not being open and honest about what they really think, what they really feel, what they like, what they don't like.

I try as hard as I can to write from a personal place and be genuine.

I don't really know any other way than to be vulnerable or just be myself.

I became Fantastic Negrito, and I felt like there was a rawness and an honesty in that music that I could relate to. That I was ready, finally, in my life to be that honest with myself.

I am an emotional guy. I try to be very honest.

I am an honest person, and that includes showing my emotions - good or bad.

I want people to stay true to who they are and how they're feeling. That's the biggest rule for myself - to always be as real as I can.

I like men who straightforwardly express their emotions.

I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose.