Judi Dench Quotes

The emotions you see when you watch 'Narcos,' they're pretty much my emotions and the way I would react if I were there. It's not something you create; all of us have everything inside ourselves.

I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

I don't think songs have to be like these super-#1-smash-hit-sounding songs, because I think it's more important that it's like, 'Hey! This is coming out of me. This is something I connect with. This is something that I like to sing.'

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

I try to spend a lot of time thinking of what it is I want to say, and how I want to say it. Mainly because I know what it's like as a fan to hear music that is just exactly what I needed.

Your real feelings are inside you.

My work is has always been very, very personal.

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

Inevitably, every part an actor plays contains some of himself.

To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.

There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe.

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

Everything I do - if I do it, is going to be personal.

We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.

To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

I feel like everything I make is personal to me.

I think your program has to reflect what your basic feelings are. I'll plead guilty to that.

I think you always have to use certain parts of yourself in any role.

I don't know, I feel like any role that I play is a little piece of me, whether it's their perspective, maybe how they dress, what they think is funny, their loyalty to their friends. It all stems from Kiersey.

Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of an engine-wheel. I believe that the cause lies in the fact that when people write, they forget for the most part to dig deeply into themselves and to feel the whole import and truth of what they are writing.

I think each person you play has a little bit of you in it - you can't really help that.