Gillian Flynn Quotes

You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct.

Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?

Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.

Especially, I don't want to ever be compared to The Rock because I'd be the poor man's version of The Rock. I'm just not him; it's not who I am as a person or as a performer. The Rock's very big and bold, and I'm not.

Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.

To force something that was not organic to who I am was tough on me, and so I can relate to all those girls and guys out there going through the same thing.

It's not what you like but what you are like that's important.

The fans only don't support me cos of the way I fight, they support me cos of the way I am.

The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home.

I try to be really, really specific, because each character is really an individual and you have to find out what makes them unique.

Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed.

I realized that one cannot reveal oneself without mannerism, without some evident trace of one's personality. But all the same one should not go too far in that direction.

They ignore what is deep and true to a man's heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.

I would just like to be real and be me. It's just really hard to do walking around and everyone knows who I am.

For most women, whether you're an actress or whatever you do, there is this pressure in society and within the world to look a certain way, dress a certain way, act a certain way, say certain things, and be this idea as opposed to being a person.

If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with. Maybe, I thought, only one of them is real.

All one's personality is embedded in gloves and hats after they've been good and used. Show me a glove and I'll tell you the character of its owner.

Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that's fine, because their fake self is also part of them.

People are expecting me to be a certain way all the time. It's not like if I come in here with a totally different personality and right before the camera starts they see this new character. It confuses everything. Life has a consensus reality to it and if you use that to your advantage it makes it much easier.

I like Billy Beane for the fact that he - his idiosyncrasies, that he can't watch the games without getting too emotional, that he often has food down his shirt, that he tends to break a few chairs now and then. I mean, these things make him human.

She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.

Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.

The decline of true taste for food is the beginning of a decline in a national culture as a whole. When people have lost their authentic personal taste, they lose their personality and become the instruments of other people's wills.

...we live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which relations between who someone is and what he believes and how he "expresses himself" have been thrown into big time flux.