Willa Holland Quotes

Inside every man, there's a yearning to express your wild side.

The whole 'bad girl' thing allows me to mess up sometimes. And I have freedom to say more of what I want to.

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.

I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.

In life, I had to be prim and proper and poised - The King Daughter. But acting, I could be the zany, silly, sometimes foolish person that I am. I could let the raw edges show.

On the ice, I feel like I can become a different person, and the darker dramatics, the Black Swan, is confident: she's free to do whatever she wants, and that attitude helps in my skating. The White Swan is, I feel, more what I'm actually like off the ice: I'm a lot quieter, and if someone tells me to do something, I'll just do it.

You can have a lot of fun playing a bad girl.

I'm still the girl that might get up to dance on the table. It's just who I am, and I'm going to be me and that's it.

I go out and I say and do what I want - even if people may find that shocking. One could, of course, decide to be suffocated by all the pomp here in Élysée Palace. But if you decide to resist it, then you won't be suffocated.

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

There is a little bit of evil in all of us, and it's very easy to draw that out.

Individuality is very important for a full human life.

I'll always be an outrageous character.

Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.

I think everybody wants to be their own person and be an individual.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

In the movie, you're moving, you have personality, you don't have to be great looking.

The fact that we represented freedom, you know. We talked about that in the songs and I think that the parents, like all parents, they want their kids to be in line and not go crazy or do anything too weird (laughs). And for some reason, I think, people identified The Doors as representing just being able to do whatever you wanted to do.

There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror.

There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.

Irreverence is a declaration of independence.

She's so small, yet she contains so much evil.

I love the idea of people being themselves in films.

I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.