Brie Larson Quotes

The truth is, I'm drawn to all kinds of things.

Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

What's the most fetching thing that provokes people? A volcano? Fountains that dance? A pirate ship that sinks? Some other animated device or presentation? Is that as strong as mystery? Allure, intrigue, is much more powerful... It taunts you.

Knowing very little about a band only adds to the allure.

He'd always been fascinated by her, drawn to her the way curious people are always drawn to things they don't understand.

How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.

I think it's important to have mystique.

You need mystery. You actually do. I think that's what foreign women, French women in particular, are good at. There's still a sense that you need to keep some of the unknown because that's where the soul resides, or something.

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

Glamour is not something you possess but something you perceive, not something you have but something you feel. It is a subjective response to a stimulus.

I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.

And I think you understand a little bit more why she falls for him. In a way, watching the French do anything is a little more fun because their gestures are different. And in that way, they make everything interesting.

The magic, that's what keeps you playing. That's what never wears off.

Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.

My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder.

Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

Sexiness is in what you cover, not what you show. When you are covered, you leave a lot to people's imagination. People see the mystery in my eyes and find it sexy.

Certain things come to me; I just become intrigued by them and want to live inside them.

Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.

Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.

Beauty draws more than oxen.

What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.

Something new has the chance to speak to someone immediately. There isn't this expectation of what they're about to hear, so people can be really captivated, really quickly.