Brie Larson Quotes

There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.

I love to work. It's the idea of having someone else tell you how to make your film or how to sell it - that's the part I can't really deal with. I would rather do 1,000 things that are work than deal with one thing that's a political problem.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career.

I've been wanting to produce for some time because I want to have more creative control over the things that I do and not be victim to the whims of other people's desires.

Can't nobody make you make any music that you don't wanna make. Remember that.

I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

If I only acted, I feel like I wouldn't have enough creative expression over my own sensibility, and also if I only acted, the notion of surrendering my fate and future to other people is deeply unsettling to me and it would make me uncomfortable.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am.

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

I have worried about getting pigeon-holed, but now I think I've done enough weird, offbeat stuff not to be. And I also know that I do things for the right reasons: I've made my money, so I don't have to say yes to anything.

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.

I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.

More power to the people who get to choose their roles. I don't.

I want to be able to manipulate and control my career from the creative side.

John Waters has certainly gotten to a place in his life where he doesn't do anything he doesn't want to do. He's always been that way, but at this point, he's greatly respected for it.

No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do.

All the artists out there, I ask you and beg you: Take over your ship. It's your career. It's your life.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

I would never tell someone else how to use their platform, because I think I'm much more comfortable allowing the work that I do to speak for itself.

I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.