Boris Kodjoe Quotes

And I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I've been in public life is what you see is what you get. And I'm no different when I'm sitting with you than I am when I'm at home or anyplace else.

When you think Tink, you should just think of me as that around-the-way girl - relatable and honest. Even in my lifestyle, my entire aura is real. I don't sugarcoat anything, whether I'm on stage or home in Chicago or just behind the scenes just chilling. I'm the same person you see on stage, always.

I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.

I think people respond to me as a down-to-Earth, girl-next-door person, because I am one of those people. That's something I don't have to act very hard at.

In normal life people say, 'You're so different than on stage!' Offstage I'm down to earth, simple and a very goofy girl... I like to make goofy faces, be dorky and not take things too seriously. I just love to laugh.

I'm real, and that what you see is what you get with me. I want people to know that I'm just Julianne. I'm not somebody that needs to be put up on a pedestal.

I like to walk around with bare feet and I don't like to comb my hair.

I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.

I like girls that are down to earth, just like to have fun, and be themselves.

If I went on vacation, I'd rather go camping than stay in some four-star hotel... My friends treat me the same at home. They just want to sit down with you and have a beer.

I always admired my father because he was a man that never put on any airs, you know. And I always tried to be that kind of person.

I think who I am as a person on and off the stage is always kind of the same thing, but I don't take a lot of things very seriously.

I just try to be the same kid from New York and Greenwich, Connecticut, who is just lame and watches TV and Netflix.

I'm just a straightforward kind of dude.

There are no pretensions where I'm from.

I think people can stand to take themselves just a little less seriously. I'm fighting the war against pretension.

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.

Why, I’m just as true and honest as dirt. And I’m even more charming than dirt.

I see a funny guy who's imperfect, but has a great heart and no vanity when it comes to what he'll do to get a laugh. I see a guy who loves his art and loves his family, and who is willing to live and die for both.

I'm not focused on the outrageousness. I'm just focused on being funny, and raising my kids. I don't even read the newspaper, I don't read that crap.

I don't do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it's funny, it's funny.

Small towns seem to appreciate things a little bit more. They're less jaded and they're more kind of authentic and more themselves and they don't care as much.

The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

Even the people who do great jokes, [it's] always coming out of a very real place.