Deborah Harkness Quotes

Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.

I felt that 'English Vinglish' was tailor-made for me since I found my character Shashi so relatable. Her simplicity and sensitivity attracted me towards the role.

I want people to... not be afraid of their truth.

For people who have been following me for a long time, I really hope that they can get to know me a little better, maybe get to know the softer, squishy, emotional side of me, because I usually put up a weird side, so it'll be cool to be able to open up in that way to them.

I rock because sometimes I'm scared and that's alright. I rock because I'm not afraid to cry. I rock because I'm loved and I'm able to love. I rock...I rock.

At a certain age you start becoming brave enough to reveal yourself and it's the revealing of who you are that enables you to dig deeper into different characters. You'll get to a point where you can say: 'I can relate to that', 'I know that', 'I don't have to make that up' and that resonates with people in the audience who can tell that you've been there.

I certainly wear my heart on my sleeve, and I think that comes out in the characters that I play. There's a yearning, or something, that comes out of me that people relate to.

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.

If after you read something, you connect with it, you want to do it.

We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.

There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized that it's time for me to show my audience that you don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect.

It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.

I just want to say to women, 'Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.'

It's that beautiful thing to love your weaknesses, your insecurities, and then put them all on blast. That's why I started writing, and that's why it was so hard to do it in public.

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

Wear your heart on your skin in this life.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.