Jeremiah Brent Quotes

You have to put your own personality into your home. Do what you feel is you!

No one is a plain white room. I hate going into a home that is done to the nines but has nothing do with the homeowner - no knickknacks, no art that has anything to say about the person who lives there.

I think it's really important to bring your own personality to the space you're in.

Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.

You have to add something of yourself to the portrayal.

Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.

The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the devilish in it-that it fits its proprietor tightly yet ever so loosely, as his skin fits him. It is, in fact, quite as seriously an integral part of him as that skin is. . . . In brief, a style is always the outward and visible symbol of a man, and cannot be anything else.

I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.

Style is character.

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.

A home should be an intimate autobiography of the things that you like. One of the things I'm so keen on expressing is that, if you don't do it for yourself, if you're always seeking affirmation from outside, you'll never have a home. It'll just be a house.

No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.

I don't want to look exactly the same in everything I do. And if I'm not identifiable, then that can be a blessing or a curse. But I'm fine with it. Because at the end of the day, I'm still working, and I'm enjoying what I do.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

An easy way to find your own style is to exaggerate yourself a bit and then find a balance.

My father's music was influential. My place is my place. I must be myself and who I am.

The best thing an actor can bring to a role is himself - that's no secret.

I only know how to be Sizzle.

I like certain pieces monogrammed because it gives my closet and home warmth - it's just something that you could really feel comfortable with. It's yours; it's something personal. I do it for fun.

The spaces we live in should tell our story.

The more you see somebody else's version of something, the harder it is to make it your own.

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

You make up a character, there's always gonna be parts of you that, like it or not, shine through.