Gina Prince-Bythewood Quotes

It's very special that I can go through things - and write them down and record them - and so many people can relate. Not everybody can get out who they are and really feel better after they write.

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

What we try to do in TSAW, which is Tasha Smith Actors Workshop, is to help the actor get to the core of who they really are and how they really feel. So, we may have them do a dump, where you just basically express everything that you feel that you have not been able to express, whether it's good, bad, or ugly.

Once I wrote 'Atmosphere,' I thought, 'This is my story; it's me and my life and what I've gone through to get to where I am.' I'm not the best singer, but still. All of my albums are personal, but putting myself out there and singing is one more thing that makes me vulnerable - one more thing that people can fire shots at.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

I am excited to show people how, when you get older, you get deeper, you get more raw, you get more honest, and you stop pretending to be the person you think people want you to be. I stopped worrying about what people wanted me to say and just sort of dug deep into my personal arsenal of my mistakes and shameful thoughts.

Do stuff that is true to your own experiences.

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.

In my new book, 'Binge,' I share essays about everything I've never told my viewers - touching on the best and worst days of my life, some hilarious, some embarrassing, but all extremely personal.

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

I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.

In everything I do, whether in business, philanthropy or my personal life, I am guided by my inner truth, my values.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

I'm not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that's what makes my comedy different.

Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable.