Brie Larson Quotes

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.

I think when you're at your best as an actor, it is cathartic.

I go on a hunt for things that make sense to me and that I can actively play as an actress.

'Normal Heart' was my most transcendent moment as an actor.

It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.

Acting is always therapeutic.

The privilege I've had as a curator is not just the discovery of new works... but what I've discovered about myself and what I can offer in the space of an exhibition - to talk about beauty, to talk about power, to talk about ourselves, and to talk and speak to each other.

Music is about people for me. It's not about sounds. It's about people; it's about putting people into challenging situations. And for me, challenges are opportunities.

As an artist, you want to do roles that challenge you and say something.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

My goal is to play characters that I feel I can contribute to and also ones I can contribute back to my life.

I look for characters that offer me opportunities to explore some aspect of the human condition. I think a lot of actors would say that and would look for that. I've been lucky enough to find projects that let me do that.

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.

Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.

There were always moments where I'd say, 'What else can I do with my life?' But when I was 30 years old and discovered I could write - I wrote 'Black Cloud' in six weeks - it opened up a whole new world for me.

Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.

I am paid to dive deeper into my own humanity and do that with other people in collaboration... so that, in and of itself, I just feel like is the greatest privilege in the world.

I'm glad I chose more vulnerable work about what is love and what is freedom and those kinds of things. But there's something innate in me where I always come back to characters with an edge.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

I've always been an outsider. I've always been attracted to roles that would challenge me and that wouldn't come around very often.

'Ragtime' was the most magical show that I've done. I had an incredible experience with that, with the show itself, with the cast, with the audience. The response to that show - my God, it really blew me away, the reactions to that show, the way it changed their lives and altered their thinking, their own self-discovery.

Gulaal' gave me a chance to channelise my restlessness into a character that had layers of complexity.

A really fun part of getting to be an actor is exploring those parts of yourself that you wouldn't otherwise explore.

Every once in a while, I'll have an acting role that allows me to look at something in my life and work it out.