Leven Rambin Quotes

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

I brought my personality and sense of wonder and I think they wrote as much of my personality as they could. I do not go around kicking butt and saving the universe all the time but they tried to capture me as best as they could in the character.

I try to find what is closest to me in the character. There's many sides to personality, but it's a matter of, do you entertain those specific areas of your personality, or are you afraid to entertain them?

I am excited to show people how, when you get older, you get deeper, you get more raw, you get more honest, and you stop pretending to be the person you think people want you to be. I stopped worrying about what people wanted me to say and just sort of dug deep into my personal arsenal of my mistakes and shameful thoughts.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

It's a real luxury to be able to develop with your character.

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.

You bring out a lot of your own thoughts and attitudes when acting. I think a great deal of it has to do with the inner you.

All of us want something in life, all of us have flaws, and all of us have strengths. So, I always try to discover those things in a character and then try to expose it in one way or another.

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

I think you have to ask questions that are scary to ask, and you cannot apologize for that, and you cannot worry what anyone else thinks about your journey.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.