Dree Hemingway Quotes

I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting... and life.

I'm interested in pursuing roles that allow me to push against my own walls, my own constraints as a human being, and to find out where I'm capable of going. In real life, I'm not very good at feeling emotions, so I like to do it through my work.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

I am so enriched because so much has happened in my life. The way I can express myself is because of the life I have led. It's only when you experience life can you emote it.

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.

Just live life. That's the best way to learn how to act. Just live.

This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years.

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

For me, my life is a journey.

I don't think my approach to acting is all necessarily in service of the character. I think, selfishly, I've put it in service of myself, my perspective on the world and helping my life.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.

My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.