Lesley Ann Warren Quotes

The thing is, about a character, it's not about being right, it's about the truth. The truth comes from within, so you have to search as an artist for the truth.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.

I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

I reveal all of myself. I bring all of myself to my roles. You only see me. You don't see anything else but me. That is who's there. They're manifestations of my own self.

Do stuff that is true to your own experiences.

So I always think it's important to allow someone to reveal themself. If you notice something about someone that you like, it could really tell you something about who they are during a time of trial. The truth will come out.

I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person - this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life - finally have an opportunity to live.

I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.

'Cars 2' is about a character learning to be himself. There's times in our lives where people always say, 'Well, you've gotta act differently. You should always be yourself.' That's the emotional core of the story.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

There's so much more to me as a human being than just my appearance, and I want to integrate that into my work.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel that writing is great therapy, and the best writing comes from truth, and so I mine my life constantly for that.

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.

At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.

I want to keep an element of myself in every character I play. And maybe that's connected to finding something that you like in every character. Maybe they coincide.

I feel like everything I make is personal to me.