Michelle Pfeiffer Quotes

When I act, I come away drained. When I write, I come away energized.

I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

I feel too strongly about rearranging reality in a movie. It gives me peace.

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

One of the most incredible and important things about the theater is that we're creating a safe space for all feelings, but especially, ugly feelings.

It's easy to sort of put a sheen across humanity if you're making a film for people who want to escape their own problems. But sometimes a movie can, in the most cathartic ways, expose those problems.

I really loved making 'Love, Nina.' I was in every scene, which was amazing. Bloody hell, what a job!

Songs say what our emotions can't. I love that about music.

Music has been my way of expressing what I've been feeling.

I thought as an actress I would be able to have broader emotional experiences, but then I quickly figured out that I wanted to think about tragic dramas, not act in them.

Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life.

I love performing. It's a phenomenal getaway. If you want to really let out everything you feel, that's the time to do it.

"Born To Run," that expands every time we go out. It just seems to you - more of your life fills it in, fills in the story. And when we hit it every night, it's always a huge catharsis. It's fascinating to see the audience singing it back to me. It's quite wonderful, you know, to see people that intensely singing your song.

Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death - this infantile fixation of mine - was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and my fear was tremendous. When I finished the picture, my fear went away. I have the feeling simply of having painted a canvas in an enormous hurry - with enormous pretension but without any arrogance. I said, 'Here is a painting; take it, please.'

I just couldn't believe that it [Into the Forest script] had fallen into my lap, because I felt so incredibly connected to my character, and I understood her, and I really...I haven't had that feeling about a script since I had read Thirteen or The Wrestler when I was just like, "No one else can do this." I just feel so passionate about it.

I believe everybody should have a room where they get rid of all their releases. So my room was a stage.

I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.

An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond... a good feeling about his art.

If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.

Rather than thinking in terms of a specific genre or specific kind of thing, I hope I can just stay relatively small and keep making my movies. If I can keep writing them and making them, I'll be happy.

People never regret when they come out of a movie and they've been crying. I think people need it. That's why people have the theater and live music, which is dwindling as well. I think people like to go see things and have an emotional, transcendent, universal human experience, but so often we're like, "Let's go watch Green Lantern," which we all know is just not going to do anything for our souls.

Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn't mean you have to go feeling that way forever. You can sing about that for the rest of your life, but that doesn't mean things aren't going to change in your own life.