Rick Famuyiwa Quotes

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

People are trying to act like they're balling all day with cars, their house, like there's no problems. I feel like a lot of people are trying to be someone they're not, and when you're just yourself, life is so much easier because you don't have to keep up this facade.

You always look to impress.

The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one’s least impressive qualities.

Liking interesting things doesn't make you interesting.

Trying to be cool is the easiest path to mediocrity

It's boring to be a poser.

I read one article that called me the 'latest pretender to the Led Zeppelin throne.'… If I saw the guy I'd knock him out. Because that's not true - I'm not pretending anything. If my records sell, it's because of me.

I don't like false modesty.

It's still thrilling, even if my work is something that people even pretend they're interested in on a first date or at a cocktail party.

There are a lot of people on Instagram desperately trying to keep up with the Joneses.

Tinsel town is full of liars, show-offs and spineless hypocrites.

I never was strutting through the hallways like, "Yeah, I'm a singer/songwriter." That's never a cool thing to do - to be the brooding guy.

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.

Very few people look the part and are it too.

Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.

Too many actors are trying to be cool: they're trying to do it with their hair, trying to do it with the color, trying to do it with clothes, or some bullshit attitude you're either cool or you're not, that is my theory. If you have to try, it is too late.

Our times are obsessed with finding fulfillment, so there are times when some people try too hard, and there are people who want to have the newest feelings just as there are those who want to have the latest model car. You can't play at love any more than you can be proud of your humility, or add water to your perfume and have it smell the same, but men and women both have been known to try.

A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.

The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a sh*t.

The thing about hipsters is that they take very seriously trying to make themselves look like they don't take themselves seriously.