Melanie Laurent Quotes

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

I want more out of life than I've gotten.

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.

I admire someone like Beyonce. She has amazing commitment. I needed to accept that I probably did not fit into that forum. Doing that 'The Cherry Thing' record was a big part of finding that place where I belong, where I may shine, but I never doubted it was there.

You move to New York. You want to be the biggest, most fully realized version of yourself you can be. A lot of that is fueled by this desire to not feel small, and to make a name for myself and establish myself in a way that wasn't expected of me.

The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.

I don't feel like I've hit my stride. So I wonder what the moment will be when I get to be who I want to be.

As much as my parents were worried about me moving to London at 17, they could see that I was hungry to find my path. And it probably helped that they saw me succeeding at it, slowly but surely.

Live the life you've dreamed.

Once I made the decision to make art despite the obstacles and to make this my priority, things just opened up for me.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

I now know that my dreams and my identity are only mutually exclusive if I don't try.

When I seen myself on TV, it made me realize, 'You're doing what you really wanted to do. You're living out your dreams.'

I keep rediscovering myself with every film. It is great to be doing that, it gives great satisfaction.

If you have a dream you gotta go on a journey to fulfill that dream.

When I was 15, all I knew was that I had to be somebody and that I could be somebody. So I exploited the only thing I knew, which was singing and songwriting.

I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.

I always look for... hopefully look for a challenge. And you're always looking for the next summit to hit. Even if it's a personal one. It needn't be some great sense of monumental... It just has to be important to you and big enough and special enough and individual enough that you get up for it. And that can be anything.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

I think all any artist or person wants to do is grow spiritually, emotionally, professionally and mentally.

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.

You gotta make the movie you want to make.