Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

You know, I find people with great honesty, bodily, physical honesty, who sit just the way they like to sit, and walk the way they like to walk, and don't come into a room all pumped up, I find them elegant.

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original.

A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, 'Oh, this thought is just occurring to me right now' - and speaking sincerely.

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

I'm just being P.J., that's the number one thing, I'm just being me. Like I'm not portraying something or acting or putting on something that I wouldn't put on every day in my life or doing anything that I wouldn't already be doing.

When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

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

I don't like it when people are trying too hard. That goes for clothes, for acting, for everything. It's just not good when it seems like you're making too much of an effort.

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.

I have no affectation when I speak.

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

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

Most style is not honest enough.

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

Trying to look cool and lovely in comedy is a recipe for disaster. You have to let go.

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

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.

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

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

It's all about the script. Reality is key to me and less cutesy.

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.