Ramon Rodriguez Quotes

If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are placed there to keep you from telling the truth. The more you see things as clearly and coldly as you can, the more value you're going to have.

When writing songs, especially if they're kinda semi-true to you, a lot of people hide behind whatever their idea of themselves is in the record, and every now and then, you might make a song that exposes something a little too much about you, and there's a part that doesn't want yourself to be exposed.

I mean, my stand-up is very honest and exposing in this way. I probably carry that into everything I do.

The thing that I've decided is, I don't want to be invisible, but I'd like to be transparent. I want people to see what I'm thinking and see through me.

What I say is how I feel.

I love being uncomfortable. I love feeling very revealed. And when I watch a piece of work that I've done, I'm actually looking for that. How naked is this character? How truthful is this character? If it's truthful, there's automatically a separation.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

My whole act is confession.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

I'm simply trying to tell the truth about human behaviour as I see it.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.

I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card.

I'd rather tell you how I really feel.

I really don't feel that any of the pieces I wrote were confessions; there are no revelations about secrets in my life, and actually I have nothing to confess and I certainly do not ask for redemption and there is no reward for confessing that I expect.

I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

The lens is the actor's best critic... showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can get wonderful cooperation out of the lens if you are true, but God help you if you are not.

When people show you who they are, believe them. I carry that with me a lot. It has served me well.

I think you find universal truth when you get really honest with yourself and you can reach people. If you go deep enough, you have that core feeling, and that feeling can transcend the details of your experience.

I'm just trying to get rid of all the mystery surrounding me and let people see what I'm thinking. So they can understand me and stop assuming things about me.

I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that.