Alexia Fast Quotes

'The Good Parts' is me telling as much as I can of the deeper sides of myself that I haven't shared before. It's like an onion that gets deeper every time you cut it.

I just know what I go through, and I know how to speak on it in an interesting way.

I've never been a confessional writer.

Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself naked for me, I'll be naked for you. It will be our covenant.

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.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.

I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it.

I have quite a rich inner life, and I'm constantly looking for a way to express that. I haven't found it yet in acting. When you're playing a character, you're only going to find outlets for very specific parts of your inner world.

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.

I'm really not interested in acting as a facade, I'm interested in it as an emotional expression and as a transcendent experience for an individual. I find that a lot of people, a lot of young actors, haven't gotten to the point where they're comfortable being stripped down. They're still interested in ornate jackets.

You can listen to 'Cosmic' and truly get to know me, which I think is special.

I try as hard as I can to write from a personal place and be genuine.

As a work gets more autobiographical, more intimate, more confessional, more embarrassing, it breaks into fragments.

Coming off 'Reflection,' what we really wanted to do was be more vulnerable.

I feel like 'Amelie' is very much an extension of me. She's a contemporary woman who sees the world through her imagination.

Makeup and fashion are a very blatant way of expressing who you are because it's the first thing people see. With music, it's more personal, where people really are trying to get into your head and learn about who you are.

I've always kept a journal and brought storytelling into my teaching.

I really tell a lot of stories. I want people to know who I am.

When you're writing, I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. You're dealing with emotions and thoughts that are native to you. So that probably winds up in your characters.

I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.

Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.

You've got to show your soul otherwise you're just a piece of equipment.