Lasse Hallstrom Quotes

I can't hide my feelings.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The tongue should express what is in the heart.

'Bottled Up' is so honest. It's something we all can relate to.

What I say is how I feel.

Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent or fraudulent.

Acting is about being real, being honest.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.

Music to me is about being honest, and it's what I've always pictured music as. I don't see the point of expressing yourself if you are going to be cryptic about it.

I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.

I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

I think the best acting is when you allow yourself to be kind of vulnerable in the moment.

People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

If I can't be honest with music, forget it.

With acting, you have to just tell the truth in each moment.

Acting is about finding truth and finding the way to convey the truth.

Because it's simple, I love you, and I don't want to keep pretending like I don't. -Rose to Dimitri

Sometimes, I have to really monitor myself, but the only monitoring job I really do on myself on stage is, Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Ideally, I send it in a flow of truth.

Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.

If you hate something, you hate it, and if you like something or somebody, you like it, but tell the truth. And most celebrities have that thin veneer that they will not break for you.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.