Juergen Teller Quotes

I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.

Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.

Different people bring out different aspects of ones personality.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'

I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female character. They all had the same challenges in terms of attempting to establish an identity, coping with loneliness, friendships, relationships.

The more you're writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it's at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.

I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.

I don't believe I've ever truly been in love because I don't believe that I've known myself well enough in the past to allow someone to love me.

The writing process really became natural when it was real and from my heart, and I was exposed.

We thought: 'Let's write songs about our relationships, the world, our anxieties - let's make the most of this.'

So I always think it's important to allow someone to reveal themself. If you notice something about someone that you like, it could really tell you something about who they are during a time of trial. The truth will come out.

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

My personality doesn't interest me.

In my new book, 'Binge,' I share essays about everything I've never told my viewers - touching on the best and worst days of my life, some hilarious, some embarrassing, but all extremely personal.

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest 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.

All of us want something in life, all of us have flaws, and all of us have strengths. So, I always try to discover those things in a character and then try to expose it in one way or another.

I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.

My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.

I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. I'm a lot more introspective than my characters.

I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.