Lana Del Rey Quotes

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.

I think that fame only goes to your head if you are not a real artist. If you are a real artist and a good person who loves what they are doing, you are going to be the same person.

As for the kind of writer I am? I am who I don't pretend to be.

All I do is make music.

I don't try to represent myself in a way that's not connected with my everyday reality, because I'm not smart enough to do that.

I didn't want to be famous, I just wanted to sing.

I'm not trying to be something that I'm not. I'm just trying to be myself and talk about what I know, and admit what I don't know.

I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

I got into this business because I like acting and I want to make movies. I would be happy living the rest of my life never famous.

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

People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling.

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

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

I'm no saint. I'm no angel. I never proclaimed to be.

I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity.

I'm quite proud of some of the films I've done, but less for the acting than for the fact that they're unpretentious and entertaining. I'm proud of having made unpretentious choices.

I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and from your heart - and I think a healthy sense of humor doesn't hurt either.

What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona.

I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

I'm not the new anything; I'm just Agyness.

Be content to seem what you really are.

What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.