Claude Debussy Quotes

As a writer, I always peel back the layers, go to the most sensitive places uncomfortably close to the heart.

You have to write about what's inside you. If I have to get something out, I'll do it.

She would always feel this wild girl was the truest of any of the people she had already been: adored daughter, bourgeois priss, rebel, runaway, dope-fiend San Francisco hippie; or all the people she would later be: mother, nurse, religious fanatic, prematurely old woman. Vivienne was a human onion, and when I came home at twenty eight years old on the day the monster died, I was afraid that the Baptist freak she had peeled down to was her true, acrid, tear-inducing core.

This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.

I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

My movies are usually about stripping off the makeup, getting down to the skeleton.

When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

Emotion is a broad spectrum and I just been to a lot of sides of my own emotions.

The next time you find yourself racing quickly down the street, know that you're not only running to your next appointment, you are literally running from contact with your truest feelings, deepest needs and most valuable insights.

Everyone should go inward, get curious about themselves, and investigate their shadows. It's one of the most important gifts we can give humanity. It's one of our most vital causes.

She saw through the shell of me into the center of me

Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.

Meditation will drop all the masks. It is a search for the original face.

There is no question that the language of "felt thought" must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best gold, it does not lie on the surface.

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

She went right down into her own personal experience for everything, reached down and pulled something out of herself that was unique and extraordinary. She had no techniques. It was all the truth, it was only Marilyn. But it was Marilyn, plus. She found things, found things about womankind in herself.

We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us. But we make ourselves true inside by manifesting the truth as we see it.

Only hearts... They're in the inside of the inside of me.

Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.

We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.