Brie Larson Quotes

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and that is usually where the work comes in - figuring out how to make it believable and make it real to present someone's problems that you don't necessarily actually know anything about.

I channel a lot of my own personal relationships anytime I prep for something.

I'm good at playing the emotionally strangled person. The woman who is in the worst place in her life. That's me!

A wounded healer, I think, is a lot more powerful than a healer that has not been wounded. In 'Weaker Girl,' I was coming from a wounded healer's perspective.

I believe that literature always goes precisely there where the damage to a person has been done.

'Creep,' unfortunately, was one of my true stories.

I don't think any one relationship in my life has wrecked me. I think I am a collection of wrecks.

All of the characters on 'Doom Patrol' explore traumatic pasts, how to deal with those pasts, and how that affects their present and their future.

It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.

I always play girls who are quite traumatised, or a plain girl, but I'm happy with that.

I know some people that have gone through serious struggles. People that were close to me, and I've seen some terrible things about people who lose it. So I think that type of pain is something that's human and that, actually, can help us look at ourselves a little bit.

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.

I'm a creative person who had a lot of dark time in my life. I can still get to it: I can still go to a relationship or a time when things weren't great. But it's getting further and further from me.

Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do.

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.

It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

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

What made me empathic was my depressions.

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.'

I can hold space for people who think I'm a nut job. It's cool. But I know from my own experience what I experienced. I know what I learned. I know what I saw. I know what I heard.

Trauma and pain and suffering can be the very thing that dislodges a person from themselves both in awful ways and larger ways that force one to reckon with one's own life.