Missy Peregrym Quotes

I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied with stories where I can't be passionate about the subject, where I can't make a difference.

I want to do a little bit of everything. I want to play a good, strong female character.

If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.

I'm dying to do a masala Bollywood film with typical song and dance. But having said that, my character in the film should have her own point of view. I won't play a role who has no brains.

I don't want to look back at my career and see a string of incredibly commercial projects that don't have much heart. I'm looking for things that have soul.

A film can be big or small - I have to just fall in love with it. To connect with the character, the script, and the director. Sometimes they say to you, 'You should do that for your career; it's a big thing, people will go and see it,' but I wouldn't be able to, because my heart wouldn't be in it. I would drive people quite mad.

Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play strong women in order to feel like a strong woman myself, but I do feel it's important to play characters that are complex and interesting and believable.

It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.

As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.

I couldn't do an acting job just to be working. It really had to have some soul to it.

I read the script for 'Guncrazy' in 1985 and loved it because it was one of the few scripts I'd come across that revolved around a strong female character.

Pretty much my feel toward MCs is, if you really got heart, you got passion, let's get on and do something. I like doing stuff with people that's real.

I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do.

People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.

I like to write about the things I care about. It's no fun to sing about things you don't like.

Every day I spend in Hollywood, I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck, and I cannot imagine making a film that way.

I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.

I enjoy taking on complex, difficult characters and have always striven to capture the truth of those people, whether or not it's popular.

I ask myself all the time, 'Why keep doing this?' If I wasn't exploring or finding something to write about that was personal or meant something, there'd be no reason. If I was ever making a record just to make a record, or ever just like, 'Just put something out there that someone will buy,' I would quit.

Even while I'm really interested in playing female characters that are varied and interesting and dynamic, I'm not of the mind that you always want to play strong female characters. I think I just want to play characters that are interesting, and not all people are 'strong.'

I've totally embraced it. I like Princess Leia. I like how she was feisty.

Jessica Jones isn't dressed in a sexy outfit to turn people on. She's gritty. She's a human being.

You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else.

You can play as good as you want, but you have to sing from a place of living.