Genevieve Bujold Quotes

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.

For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.

The emotions you see when you watch 'Narcos,' they're pretty much my emotions and the way I would react if I were there. It's not something you create; all of us have everything inside ourselves.

The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

I think things are dishonest if they're not aware of sadness.

I'm a very honest person, and I'm quite emotional for a man. If I want to say something, I'll say it.

At the end of the day, you're trying to - be it on theatre or on the camera - tell the truth and be honest in the moment.

I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

I use myself for each part. Naturally, it's my body, it's my soul, it's my feelings. That's the only way I know how to work. I couldn't pretend.

Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.

I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life.

When I'm onstage they know I'm honest, and I try to be as humble as I can.

You write who you are somehow. Even if you try to not to. You can't help but write who you are. I'm just not a very cynical person. I believe in the humanity of people, whether it is just the guys in 'The Full Monty' or Aron Ralston.

Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of spirit.

I think the best acting is when you allow yourself to be kind of vulnerable in the moment.

I think there's a certain level of trust that I have with women. I've always been honest, even when I haven't had good times in my life or my movie bombed or I've had great success. I've owned up to all of it.

I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me.

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.

Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.

I don't feel I have to charm somebody, I feel I want to know them; it's a different thing.