Nigella Lawson Quotes

A spontaneous interview feels differently than anything else you see on television.

I'm being myself when the camera is rolling.

The most important thing to me is that it's all really raw.

I'm not a theatrics guy who does things for effect. Whatever comes out is what I feel. It just comes out.

This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.

More Democrats should be speaking without vetting their statements through their staff because it will feel realer.

I just think the more you're in front of camera, the better: my main aim is just to tell the truth, be natural, and believe in what I'm doing, and hopefully that comes across as a rawness.

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.

People want to see something authentic. If it's too polished and highly produced, people might not trust it as much. If it's grainy, if it's coming from a webcam, if it's someone standing there and talking their mind or sharing their thoughts, people trust it much more.

The way to my heart is by being truthful and spontaneous.

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

The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.

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

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

They're just actors. I much prefer the real thing!

I live a very real life.

Scripts are corny and predictable. Real life is always better.

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

I really don't act. I just live what George and I are doing. It has to make some sort of sense to me, or it won't ring true. No matter what the script says, there's no audience and no footlights and no camera for me. There's no make-believe. It's for real.

I've always been exactly who I am on TV. I'm not playing a role.

I am not premeditated in what I am going to say. That means there will be times I regret saying certain things.

All the epic allusions contribute to the difficulty Clinton has long had in coming across as, simply, a human being. She is uneasy with the press and ungainly on the stump. Catching a glimpse of the 'real' her often entails spying something out of the corner of your eye, in a moment when she's not trying to be, or to sell, 'Hillary Clinton.'

Whether you like it or not, with me, what you see is what you get.

I find I don't need to be polished. I feel that you have to keep it real, and that's the best way to go.

I don't have an image that I'm trying to, like, portray. I'm just being me.