Gracie Allen 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 a theatrics guy who does things for effect. Whatever comes out is what I feel. It just comes out.

I just think the more you're in front of camera, the better: my main aim is just to tell the truth, be natural, and believe in what I'm doing, and hopefully that comes across as a rawness.

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

The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.

I live a very real life.

I can get caught in many things but there is one thing I will never get caught in, and that is acting - because I don't act. On screen I am like I am in real life.

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

The way to my heart is by being truthful and spontaneous.

I don't really like 'acting' - I like things to feel as natural as possible.

I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.

I've always been taught to just play the truth of the situation. If comedy comes out of that, or drama, whatever comes out of it, at least I'm playing the truth of the moment-to-moment reality.

Acting means nothing unless it's truth. And honesty.

All I know is real life. I don't know how to act. I don't know how to pretend.

It's not about making it perfect, it's about letting it be real, sometimes raw and flawed, as long as it's true.

I'm real. I'm not polished.

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.

I find I don't need to be polished. I feel that you have to keep it real, and that's the best way to go.

To express yourself as you are, without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, is the most important thing.

OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.

I speak from the heart. Certain people follow lyricists and people that put words on a dictionary together, and this and that. I'm more of a rapper that speaks how I feel. I just tell it how it is.

The truth just happens - lies take time to make.