Rene Russo Quotes

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

I relate to most of the characters I play, because I do feel like an outsider.

I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

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

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

Well, it's probably not something I'm conscious of, but I do gravitate towards characters that are kind of like me.

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

The people in my songs are all me.

I've realized that Evanescence is who I am.

I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.

I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

People want to know more about me. They want to know who I am.

Figure out who you are.

My character from 'Panda Eyes,' Fay, is the character I see myself in a lot.

I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.

Chloe is really just like an exaggerated aspect of myself.

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

I didn't want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. 'I forget myself, I am a little poor consumer.' I wanted to make a picture where someone who sees it say, 'This is me! This is me!'

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

I've never, ever labeled myself.