Kodi Smit-McPhee Quotes

I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that.

Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.

51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!

I am a very deep person. I run very deep in real life.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don't at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

It's critical to be able to see things in other people that sometimes they don't see in themselves.

To know me is to love me. This cliche is popular for a reason, because most of us, I imagine, believe deep in our hearts that if anyone truly got to know us, they'd truly get to love us - or at least know why we're the way we are. The problem in life, maybe the central problem, is that so few people ever seem to have sufficient curiosity to do the job on us that we know we deserve.

In some way, people believe that if you are permeable, if you are a good listener, you don't have the quality of somebody with a firm attitude. This is what, fundamentally, I got from my mother.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

I started to like my voice - the sound of it. So then I started to listen to it as something separate. To me, it sounded good that way as well.

Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.

Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.

I'm very comfortable discussing my personal life, because it's so boring.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

I'm just not that comfortable writing so much about myself.

I like to think that I'm not as ominous in real life.

In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.

We're a whole culture of people who have a really hard time seeing beyond themselves.

You bring out a lot of your own thoughts and attitudes when acting. I think a great deal of it has to do with the inner you.

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

I think was overly empathetic for a while in my life.

Some people are more fluid than others at just being themselves and recognizing what's good about themselves.

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.