Machine Gun Kelly Quotes

I am so enriched because so much has happened in my life. The way I can express myself is because of the life I have led. It's only when you experience life can you emote it.

This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years.

I'm always thinking about what my identity is.

I always find another version of myself in each of my films.

What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.

I mean, in 'Big' and 'Pleasantville,' it's a journey that the characters go on where I think they come to kind of meet themselves at the end and who they actually are and give full voice to who they actually are. And that, you know, obviously fascinates me for some reason. Maybe I didn't adequately grow up.

I've learned a lot with every character, everything from being a cop, to a lawyer to a tattoo artist. And underneath that stuff, I've been really able to find myself through the characters. It's served as a cheap form of emotional therapy.

I kind of discovered my voice for the first time, and the more I did it, the better it got.

I think it's important I stay connected to every part of my personality. I play basketball. I rock climb. I paint. I'm a little bit scattered, but it's so I can convincingly play all these characters.

In every role, a part of me gets to come out.

The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.

It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.

I think the beauty of growing up is not really knowing and figuring it out for yourself.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.

Usually, at the end of a film it's like I've finally gotten to know this person completely, and then we're done. That actually happened on the set of 'Twilight,' and then it happened again on 'New Moon.' Each time my character Bella became a different person, and I got to know that person and take her to the next level.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.

With every role that I do, I always see a little bit of me, a little bit of art and life.

In 'Bigg Boss Telugu,' I had to be myself, not Jai. So, every weekend, when I went to the television show, it helped me to get back to my real self.

That's a lovely starting point for me as an actor: the question of what will we - or can we - do with this lot of years with which we're blessed? More than my other films, 'The Danish Girl' is about the gigantic risks involved in being true to one's self.

I moved to Europe and was able to take time and really explore who I was and who I wanted to be. I needed that time for myself to really do that self-exploration and get back in touch with my roots.

It's really fun to put yourself into a character - into shoes you wouldn't normally be in.

My whole life has been a search for finding myself, pretty much.