Liz Goldwyn Quotes

The audience likes a speaker with the same weakness and the same virtues that they themselves have.

I feel such a connection to 'Violet.'

I wanted to get people to feel where I'm coming from and connect with people who are feeling the same way that I am.

If I want people to connect to my words and my stories, I need to tell them where they came from. Because then, when you break into song, they have kind of a blueprint for why I wrote that song, so they can come to it with something they went through that helps them connect to it.

I can't write about someone who is unlike me in all senses-physically, emotionally and socially.

I think when people hear your music, sometimes they get deeply attached to it and think they know something about you, that you're kindred spirits or something.

I like movies I can relate to.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

I loved playing Shaun, he's not that different from me.

I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences - by talking about your relationships or your personal tragedies. If you reach out with that energy, you'll touch people.

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music.

I have a lot of real life experience that I can draw on. And I think that shows in the characters that I play because I'm always trying to find somebody - or find characters to play that I can identify with on a personal level or relate to. And I think it makes for a little bit more of an honest portrayal.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.

So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me.

Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

It definitely seems like we are connecting with people, which is nice, because I've had a lot of music do the same for me. It's not like I don't I understand why we get the reactions we do.

Inevitably I draw on my own relationships when I write, so if I'm writing about a fight between a husband and his wife, of course I'm going to think about a recent fight with my husband. Or if I'm writing about sisters, of course I'm going to think about my sister.

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

When you are playing someone who is dealing with issues on a really personal level, if you don't bring your own issues into the equation, it's not going to feel really personal to the people watching it.

Our emotions resonate with each other - for better and for worse.

To me, it's important to try and make an emotional connection with the audience.