Ellar Coltrane Quotes

Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form.

Art is the skin of the soul.

From the beginning, music has been the chosen way to express feelings that words alone can't.

I thought as an actress I would be able to have broader emotional experiences, but then I quickly figured out that I wanted to think about tragic dramas, not act in them.

And I am the kind of person that feels so much that if I didn’t have acting (and music), I would burst from all of the emotion inside!

I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct.

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.

All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

When Dick Avedon died, I was so upset that I just started painting.

I like to play different ranges. When you get really deeply involved in the emotional parts, I enjoy that just as much as the fun and laughter.

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.

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

As an actor, you express certain things because they need to be expressed, and then you don't really feel a need to do it again. I want to feel something else, you know?

Music is what our feelings sound like.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.

Painting is but another word for feeling.

Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that.

Composing is an emotional thing.