Brie Larson Quotes

I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.

I am good when there is something central about the character. There is always a human theme I attach myself to. I am really looking for something that is moving or enlightening or something with depth as an actor. I look for these kinds of roles.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

Once you're playing someone, you shouldn't be judging them in any way. That's what being an actor is - it's having empathy for people that are different from yourself. Once you've committed to that person, your responsibility is to tell that story.

If you're good enough to play a role with emotion and universal human elements, then you'll get others coming to you.

Building a character - nothing gives me more high than the process of exploring someone else's life on screen.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

I am attracted to the complexities and deeper truths of characters, and I can't name a favourite role any more than I can name a favourite food!

When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.

I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audience decide whether they're empathetic or scared or compelled to cheer me on.

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

When you cast, you can't cast only visually; you have to cast emotionally, too.

In the work that I normally do, you have a whole script, a whole arc, that you play. And I do believe a good actor will play every bit of information they're given.

When I approach any script, I always try to find what I would relate to most in it.

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

I look at scripts really for whether they can be moving or penetrate some kind of truth. You are constantly chasing that feeling as an actor when every part of a production comes together.

I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.

I get to play characters that kind of shock people and I enjoy doing that. I like characters that have meaning and get people in the heart. I want to be able to get people to cry or make people angry or sad.

I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.

Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.

It's an interesting opportunity to do a long-form character and really have the time to find the nuance over an extended period of time. You can really dig deep.

I wouldn't say I'm a Method actor, but there are times where a role will require you to live in their world.

When I'm singing a song, I'm in that song, and I'm thinking about what emotions I should bring to the song. Voicing a character was very similar. It was high energy, and I had to really think about the emotion of what was going on in the scene.

I've never disliked a character I've played. I've always tried to find the humanity and the reasons for what he does.