Tarja Turunen Quotes

When you have a dark side, nothing is ever as good as it seems.

I love to make songs out of some of those shadows - you know, some of the things you lie awake thinking about, social anxieties and romantic insecurities and all that stuff.

Complicated feelings are fertile soil for creative ideas.

By acknowledging, accepting, and embracing our dark side, we create natural steam vents within ourselves. By providing an opening, we eliminate the worry about an explosion because we are allowing the pressure to be released in a safe and appropriate way.

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.

'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.

Everybody has a lot of darkness in them because without that you're not a whole person.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.

I don't think many people get to play big emotions in life.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

Among the mysteries of the creative ego is how the transcendence of what artists do is their own response to the darkness of who they are, and the same personal darkness that is at odds with the art is what propels artists to the light of what they create.

Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.

I don't think you can be good in life without acknowledging the part of you that isn't good.

I'm just kind of odd. There are dark forces in the world, and if you pay attention to what's going on around you, you end up incorporating it into the storytelling. Maybe it's some aspect of myself that's coming through that people are seeing, that I am in fact a quiet psycho.

There are parts of me that I keep secret even from myself. I have demons and I'd love to be able to healthily look at the demons and still be a wonderful actor and not feel I need them to create.

I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.

I think good art does come from a dark place.

I hate putting negative energy out into the world. But it's either inside or out. I mean, it's either get an ulcer or have a fight.

I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about.