Paul Scofield Quotes

I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.

Acting is about giving yourself away, like the U2 song 'With or Without You.' You just don't stay behind a character and make people laugh or cry. At some point you have to take off that mask, and when you do, you're a human being, not just an actor. After all, I'm Catherine the person first. You share that.

The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can.

I always thought that I was a terrible writer. And I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing. I think it's a new way for me to express things that are closer to myself than when I play a role because, of course, it's really not me.

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

The best music is the music which brings out something of you that you didn't know was there before, or you did know was there but had avoided.

I want filmmakers to notice me, not just as a glam doll but as a human being with all facets of emotions.

Everything that I am or will ever be is in the music. If you want to know me, just listen.

To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

Stop trying to figure out what is 'best' for you (how you can win the most, lose the least, get what you want) and start going with what feels like Who You Are.

Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.

You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.

He’s more myself than I am

She used to say 'You can be whoever you want, even yourself'.... Yeah, I show up knowin exactly who I was and never leave as myself

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.

I think the actor or performer should be - to touch that truth inside of a person. Touch that reality so much that they become a part of what you're going and you can take them anywhere you want to.

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

I always thought it was a trap to fit into ideologies, and maybe that's a luxury position, but my work is a reflection of my being here. My being here is not a reflection of an idea.

It's so much easier for me to get up and be someone else than expressing my own thoughts and feelings.

Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

Be yourself cause everyone else is already taken.

Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.

It's important to be yourself. What art does for everyone, helps you understand yourself and in a distilled way, whether it's a painting or a scene in acting or a joke. It distills something about everyday life that can be important to you.

The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.

If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the actor and in some way inure itself against the emotion.