Alexis Ren Quotes

You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.

You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like.

I never wanted to lose who I am, my character or my integrity for the sake of Hollywood.

I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.

From the moment I went to Hollywood for the first time, I was accused by various people of selling out. So I feel I've done my sell-out films already. I've sold everything! I've sold every piece of soul I ever had!

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.

I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.

I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane's Addiction reunion thing, that I would feel like a sell out. That's how it would feel to me.

I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.

Making mistakes is part of life. The only things I would feel ashamed of would be if I had said things I hadn't believed in order to get on. Some politicians do do that.

To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.

I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.

Holding true to what you believe - even in a big city - is so important.

Selling out is when you do something that you don't naturally want to do.

I've had too many opportunities to sell out.

You have to be completely brave and sincere about what you're doing to just not ever compromise and change it to what you think someone else might want.

I'm never gonna sell my soul or violate myself for no amount of dollars or fame.

I really don't believe in the word 'selling out.'

You should do the sound that you want and not what others want.

I would never be a sellout, but you can never be a sellout to kids. Kids is kids!

I'm not going to be somebody I'm not.

I don't see Hollywood as the big enemy, because this is where the money is, and not all of the companies are doing studio movies. I'm not tempted to sell out. If I'm going to become well known, I want it to be for something I'm proud of.