Brie Larson Quotes

I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.

I think you can decide how much of yourself you're willing to make public.

Although I know it's unfair I reveal myself one mask at a time.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.

By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had.

I find it really cool when people have this artist persona they can put on. They can go out and act like this other person; I can't pull that off... I can't censor myself.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.

I don't know. You know, when I'm not acting, I'm not an actor. I'm just a person. That's how I go through life. I'd rather not - you know, like a lot of actors, you know, they spend their whole 24 hours a day being an actor.

I think I have too little to hide to be interesting.

I never get into the details regarding my own personal situation.

Modelling asks you to be conscious of your outer self, but with acting, you have to let that go.

I think having a private life that you only share with your nearest and dearest is important. Otherwise, who are you?

When writing songs, especially if they're kinda semi-true to you, a lot of people hide behind whatever their idea of themselves is in the record, and every now and then, you might make a song that exposes something a little too much about you, and there's a part that doesn't want yourself to be exposed.

I want to be relatable. I want people to know who I am, but that doesn't mean you get to know everything about me and my life. I think that there's a fine line.

What you are is what you are, and I don't think you should ever fight it. But as an actor, I feel lucky to play different parts.

If you don't feel comfortable talking about really personal things in your music, you shouldn't do it. There's plenty of other things to write about.

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

I can work inside the boundaries of Erika Murphy, or whoever the character is. It's fun to create somebody that's not you, that doesn't exist.

I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.

I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

I don't know... I don't want people to know everything about me.