Roy Choi Quotes

You can't just keep telling a story the same way over and over again. And I think it only helps the world to be more honest with young kids, to show them the world that they go walk outside and see.

People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to.

I find that there's so much funny stuff in real life, and I am much more interested in super grounded, real stuff, so now I just want things to feel real and authentic.

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

I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.

Not to say there's not good TV out there, but I think TV is better when it accurately reflects the world as it is.

I do try to write in ways that reflect reality, and I think that reality is rarely simple.

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

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.

If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest.

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.

I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can.

I come out of real life.

I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.

I've always been taught to just play the truth of the situation. If comedy comes out of that, or drama, whatever comes out of it, at least I'm playing the truth of the moment-to-moment reality.

It's the truth and people need to hear the truth.

I want to try and portray characters that are in real life, that you see day-to-day. If I were to just stay in my little village in Wales, I would have gotten a very small taste of a very big plate.

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.

The reason I became an actress is because I wanted my acting to reflect life as it is. I want to put truth on the screen. I want real women to see real women on the screen.

We have to reflect the world that we live in.

My responsibility is to present things in a way that is realistic and true to the multifaceted world I've known... This is how I think the world is, not how it should be.

When I look at material, I get excited by things that are telling the truth because that's what you want to do: tell somebody else's truth.

Whatever you put in your listing, make sure that it's a true representation of the property and it's not dishonest.

Acting means nothing unless it's truth. And honesty.