Rainbow Rowell Quotes

If anyone else played Hermione, it would actually kill me.

I don't have sentimental attachments to characters at all.

It's always overwhelming when you get a nice response to something, because you really invest in these projects, and you can't help but really care what other people think.

Every fandom has, you know, it's made up human beings, of people. And there's good, bad, in every group, so we can't worry about that stuff.

People that know me know I take stuff personally.

The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality.

It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills from coordinated group activity.

Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

The audience's reactions are more important: if people believe in the love story, it's because they love how we've acted. That's the most beautiful award. It's very important for me, people appreciating what I do.

As a songwriter, your songs are, in a way, like your children - you want them to be appreciated.

I don't think I've gone a day in my life without being inspired by Celine Dion. If you would've seen me at her concert in Las Vegas - like, I'm surprised I didn't get kicked out. I was literally sitting at the edge of my seat like the happiest girl in the entire universe.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.

To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.

We're paid to care. That's what actors get their money for. But the main goal is not for the actors to be frustrated at the end of the show, but for the audience to be throwing their shoes at the television set. That's what we're trying for.

You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions, and when to stand alone is to activate primitive, powerful, and unconscious feelings of rejection, then the health of these institutions seems far more vulnerable than we think.

The kind of sleep that I had during my own film [Certified Copy] screening in Cannes is different. It's not because of the specificity of the film. It was because of my relationship as an author to this film. Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them. Whereas this time, I didn't have that responsibility on my shoulders.

I saw her backstage and said hi, took a picture with her. Tried to get a convo going, but the kid had know idea wut to think!

If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.

So when things start going badly, you're invested in the characters in a way I think amplifies the horror and the fear because you're invested.

I think when there's so much information to be eaten up, and so many ways to do it, people cling to groups. I think we, as monkeys, want to live in smaller groups.

Where I felt comfortable was being the one that everyone liked to party with. And it was kind of the way I could fit in.