Matt Czuchry Quotes

Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true.

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all.

Everybody claims they have relatable, connectable characters, but those claims often aren't true.

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

We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.

Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance …

Everything that I can do to ground the story in reality helps make it harder for people to be dismissive of it.

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

The first rule of hip-hop is probably keep it real. And that can mean a lot of different things, but that's certainly important in reporting and storytelling.

I've listened to 'Frank' so many times. She was so honest and herself. I think one of the hardest things for an artist to do is tell the truth, but that's what Amy Winehouse did, and it's what I want to do - if you want to write songs that connect with people, I think they really need to believe what you're talking about.

The thing about any character is that you want to be sincere.

When you're being real, that's endearing to an audience. When you're not being real and you're making jumps to things that don't really follow how they would in reality, people don't appreciate that.

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.

Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the bit that wasn't made up. This is because real life is under no obligation to be convincing.

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

Fiction, at its best, is a radical act of intimacy. It seeks to join, to merge, to know deeply; and, as with intimacy, there is a way in which it cannot be faked.

All I've ever tried to do is play real people.

I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'

Even when I do commercials, I try to tell a story about the product. With music, I try to tell the story of the person's struggle for success. And I believe every word I say. I never read anything on the air I don't believe in. I think people sense that about me, and they respond to it.

I try to give each performance my own soul, to bring a truth to my character. Hopefully, when I bring that much truth to a character, it resonates with somebody, and it sparks some kind of emotion in them.

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all. Sometimes it's me, or a composite of me and other people. Sometimes it's not me at all.

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.