Jimmy Fallon 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 love when a scene can almost be boring because it's so honest, you know.

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

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.

It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up.

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

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

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.

Portray the world for what it is, and you will find truth.

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

I like to portray things as close to the bone as possible.

I like real people. I like real things.

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

I have had enough of an interesting life to not embellish it in any way.

I'm real. I'm not polished.

There are no pretensions where I'm from.

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.

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

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

The simplest things are often the truest.

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.

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.

I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.