I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
Scripts are corny and predictable. Real life is always better.
Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn't make it easier.
If it's something that reaches out and grabs me, I want to do it. I have a lot of trouble doing things that don't grab me. So, I'm not a very good actor in that way. I can't fake it.
It's easy to get by on a facade of fancy style, but sooner or later, people are going to see through it. I'm trying to be as honest as possible.
'English Vinglish' is simple; that's why people like it. The film has simplicity and sensitivity. There is no melodrama. Some things have been conveyed just through expressions and no lines.
I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.
I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
There's an authenticity in just being who you are and not having an act about it or wear clothes you normally wouldn't wear. I'm just comfortable in my own skin.
I wanted to go to a place with my first album that was just to the root, to the heart of emotion, and just unbridled by anything that wasn't truly in my heart.
I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
I just do my thing onstage - it's just what happens. No one, even if they're into the band, can know it's as natural and real as anything can be. I don't think about it.
Nobody stays here by faking reality in any manner whatever.
I prefer being honest to being 'honest to God.'
I never went wrong by being myself.
I followed the 1.2 million people with my hand. Never faked anything. Never bought any followers or anything like that. So anything on my social media is a hundred percent real.
I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a man to like me for me - I want him to be authentic.
I'm being myself when the camera is rolling.
Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.
One doesn't have to resort to cheap imitations of characters or people around you to make others laugh. At least, that is what I've always believed in.
If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.
I like people to be authentic, thoughtful, and honest.
