Brie Larson Quotes

Often, when I finish a film, I'll have that feeling inside me: 'I never want to do this ever again. I don't want to pretend anymore. I want to be myself and do that.'

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.

I couldn't be 'Johnny' in front of a camera in acting jobs and behind the camera I like to be 'Michael.' With directing, you can't do it by halves. There's a lot of reflection, and I have found that I, as 'Michael,' thrive on it. It's lovely coming home and feeling that stuff from a day's work as myself.

But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.

I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting.

I choose roles that are not me.

The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.

I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

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

My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am.

I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, 'What am I doing? This isn't who I am, as a man or an artist.' I had to overcome people's belief that I was too pretty to be a badass.

I always thought that I was a terrible writer. And I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing. I think it's a new way for me to express things that are closer to myself than when I play a role because, of course, it's really not me.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

I think the stage is the place where I feel most comfortable and most myself.

When I was in high school, I tried too hard to be cool and to impress people, but playing all these different characters has helped me find myself again.

It's easy to play a character, but playing yourself is difficult.

As I say, there's something that scares the hell out of me but it really makes me work hard in losing myself. I'm not really interested in me as an actor or being a personality player, or a Hollywood star. What's given to me is to become different people and to find the truth of that. That is really what I do.

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

From an early age, I never let anyone silence my voice. This steadfast attitude has helped me as an actor and has truly enabled me to explore and evolve the characters I portray on television and film.

I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.