Sara Zarr Quotes

I always try to find some part of a character that exists in me and plug that in.

I feel like everything I make is personal to me.

With 'Girls,' I have been able to plug into almost everything I've felt that's personal and sensitive.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over 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.

If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.

I have a photograph of myself when I was 2 years of age, and I don't recognize the person in the photograph. She doesn't look anything like me, and I can't find any trace of her in me physically. And yet I remember her very, very well - even her anxiety.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.

I have to live in the truth that this is who I am. That's what I need to focus on.

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

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

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.

Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.

Geoff Leonard knows more about me than I know myself.

I think a lot of Magnum was me.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.

The Lord knows who we really are, what we really think, what we really do, and who we really are becoming.

I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.

I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.