Emily Atack Quotes

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

I just want my relationship to be more for myself rather than a public statement.

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.

I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced.

My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.

My work is intensely personal.

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

I don't know, I feel like any role that I play is a little piece of me, whether it's their perspective, maybe how they dress, what they think is funny, their loyalty to their friends. It all stems from Kiersey.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

One of the other reasons for writing this book [My Beloved World] was to hold on to the person you first met. More of the world knows about me now and follows me in a way that never happened before. I didn't want me, the inside of me, to change. Because I liked Sonia, the Sonia who has been. So another reason for writing the book was to hold on to that - whatever the best in Sonia was, to try to capture it.

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

I made the character as much of myself as I could.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I'd like people to get a sense of who I am, yet I want to keep my privacy, too.

Over a long period of time, living as if you were someone else is no fun.

I choose roles that are not me.

Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.