James Ransone Quotes

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

I can't do a role or character unless I have lived that character. For me, the best teacher is life.

I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.

I have been shaped by my mistakes and disappointments - just as I have been shaped by my successes.

Everything that I've done has made me who I am today. You know, it's cliche, but it's true.

I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.

I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.

What I went through in personal life had a big impression on my professional choices.

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.

I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

I've had a life that has taken many interesting paths. I've learned a lot from mentors who were instrumental in shaping me, and I want to share what I've learned.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

I felt that with 'In A Perfect World' I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.