Camilla Belle Quotes

Nothing's wrong with honest emotion.

There are women to whom nature has granted the gift of silent emotion. They have mobile faces, changeful eyes, soft lips, which express joy or desolation naturally, and with the charm of perfect simplicity and truth.

With acting, a lot of it has to come from that real, honest place.

Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.

I act with my gut instincts.

Music's supposed to be real. When it really touches you, it's supposed to be real.

I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it.

When you hear my music and you feel the emotion, it's real. When you see me in a film and you see a tear, it's real.

The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

When I was younger, I thought I had to shut myself off, work really hard to cry. I learned after a while that that's just not... You know, often in life, you cry when you're caught off-guard. That's where I need to be when I'm acting, too.

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.

The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

The word 'operatic' is often misused to mean over the top, where someone is over-emoting. And that does a terrible disservice because 'operatic' to me means a commitment and a belief to the emotion of the moment that is sincere.

I think if something's emotionally real - and I'm not even talking about in movies or in art, but in life - you can't really argue with that, even if your intellectual mind might know differently.

You cannot just scream and yell unless you feel it in your whole body.

The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.

I get the best inspiration or the most creativity from real emotions.

Real human emotion is always interesting.

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.

I tend to make my most important decisions by following my instincts rather than any straightforward logic.

Emotional sounds don't lie.