Karla Souza Quotes

'Safe' was a script that I read and flipped out for.

For 'A.D.,' when I got the script, I was really moved, because even though it told a story that I knew all my life, it was told in a different way. It was told from a very personal point of view.

You know this old style of American family series? Well, I sit there and cry.

If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.

It's weird, the idea of someone else playing my dad, but weirdly nice.

When you hear people scream because they're about to hear a song that has been a part of their life, there's nothing like that.

When I saw the scene in 'Close Encounters,' and Richard Dreyfuss's son is screaming at him - that's a heartbreaking scene. And I remember being devastated by 'E.T.' Or when E.T. started to get sick. That broke me up a little bit.

There are so many ways to respond to music besides feeling like someone's communicating with you. It gives me a charge.

When I read a script, I'll have a very visceral gut reaction to what does this mean to me? How does she feel in my skin? Could I play this role?

You're basically the same person forever so you find the same stuff funny forever. The Muppet Show spoke to me at 5 and it speaks to me in my late 30s in the same way.

Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.

A movie's a movie - you know I'm a massive old film buff - but it's still something to me, music: I can still close my eyes like I was when I was a teenager, and it can still make me weep or make me angry or make me, even if it's bad music, crack up.

My favorite thing is watching people watch The Hollars movie and then come up to me and say whether they went through an experience like that or they went through an experience nothing like that, but it still was their mom or "that was my brother" or whatever it was - that's great.

Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in love with this man. They don't make memories like that anymore

Being remembered, and remembered so kindly, touched him more than he would have thought possible.

There are books that I read years ago that enlivened things in me that haven't died yet.

If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're honest with ourselves, we have to admit we enjoy our tears just as much as we enjoy our laughter. The only moments of life that are a bore are when we don't care one way or another.

The main event has never been the manifestation; the main event has always been the way you feel moment by moment, because that's what life is.

Value is a perception not a calculation. Value is something people feel, not something we tell them they get

I think everybody reacts to entertainment with a different kind of visceral way, probably mostly based on their own personal experiences.

I'm not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence ... are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my family. Different facts, same emotions.

She turns her head, Bailey catches her eye, and she smiles at him. Not in the way that one smiles at a random member of the audience when one is in the middle of performing circus tricks with unusually talented kittens but in the way that one smiles when one recognizes someone they have not seen in some time.

I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.

I can't imagine laying a finger on my kids. I go the other way and probably because my father was so abusive.

In some ways, I'm relieved that I didn't have a son.