Top 100 Brie Larson Quotes
#1. I wasn't interested in going to the school dances. I wasn't interested in going to the football games. What I wanted was to be in my room painting my walls and doing weird stuff. That's what I wanted and I got to do what I wanted, so that, to me, is my high school experience.
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#2. Because we put ourselves in a movie or on TV, then it must mean we want to be completely open to the world. Sometimes, people will run up to you as if this is Disneyland and I'm a character. I understand their point of view, but it's difficult to explain how terrified it makes me. I'm so nervous.
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#3. I think it's always the moments that are the trials that end up making you become a hero in the end. You're not a hero unless you've gone through the trials. And it makes these moments so much sweeter, so much better. I don't believe in 'deserved,' but I might believe in 'earned.'
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#4. When I was seven, I had been very vocal about wanting to be an actor. And my mom decided that we would try it out for a couple weeks and come to L.A. from Sacramento.
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#5. The cool thing about designers is they have very specific points of view, and because my inspiration is always changing, it's easy to go, 'This feels right.' But just because I wear fancy dresses on weekends doesn't mean in my heart of hearts I'm not a jeans and T-shirt person.
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#6. Sometimes I laugh with my parents, and sometimes I yell at them, and both are therapeutic.
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#7. I've been so impressed by the material that's been sent to me, but I don't think that's because it's me.
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#8. I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.
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#9. I have no problem talking about how hard it's been, how broke I've been, and how broke I was not even that long ago.
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#10. I wasn't perfect and didn't have it together. I felt alone. So through acting, I decided to be a shape shifter and with every role become the character instead of being myself. It meant about 10 years of no one knowing I was the same person in every movie.
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#11. When what you do is play characters every day, all day, I wasn't really interested in playing a pop star on the weekends.
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#12. I think my mystery, or any person's mystery, is the thing that makes them most interesting. I try to be as conscious as possible of keeping that alive.
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#13. As I have had to meet different challenges, I realize I am coming into myself, and whatever I'm wearing is another chance for me to explore a new version of myself.
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#14. I know that I'm an actor and I guess I could kind of put on an act, but it takes so much more time to be someone you are not. I feel so much better just being comfortable with myself and hopefully girls will accept that.
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#15. As much as I love acting, I just want to be a healthy person.
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#16. When I was younger, watching movies, it felt like everything was glossy and beautiful, and I didn't really relate to it.
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#17. I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.
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#18. For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.
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#19. When you audition for something, and you book it, you think, 'Okay, well, I got the job, and now I actually have to show up on set and do it.' So, you show up on set, and you don't know, 'Am I going to get swallowed up by these people?'
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#20. All of the movies that last, that you return to, the movies that struck you as a kid and continue to open up to you 10 years later and 10 years after that - those are the movies I want to make. Those things are eternal.
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#21. The entire process of making a movie is sort of blind trust because, otherwise, all of it just doesn't make any sense: the fact that we can create any sense of reality or emotion given the arbitrariness of a day.
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#22. My parents called me the WB frog. Because when I was onstage, I would do this whole song and dance, but if my parents had a family friend over, I would just go hide in the bedroom.
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#23. Who would I be in 'Game of Thrones?' I love Brienne.
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#24. The experience of making a movie, you start to see it everywhere. It's just this amazing mechanism that your brain does because it just so badly wants to be helpful and keep all the information that you need as accessible as possible.
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#25. I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I don't think it's good to become so dependent on a certain writing process.
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#26. It's hard when I get to the end of the movie and am held hostage and am supposed to be very upset and the funniest things I've ever heard in my life are coming out. All I can do is pretend there's something really important behind me to hide my face from it.
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#27. I know what my dharma is: I'm supposed to be an actor.
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#28. When you eliminate all stimuli, your brain is like, 'Finally, we've got some space! I want to talk with you about something!'
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#29. In this industry, where things change so quickly, I've found that having no expectations is the happiest way to go.
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#30. I didn't realise how hard it was to be a mom and keep it all together.
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#31. I don't take roles that are 'just another role.' I'm interested in learning more about myself and about humanity. So it should change you by the time it's done.
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#32. Girls in this industry sabotage one another.
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#33. I started watching so many different types of women, saw all the complexities of them, all the ways and the look and shapes they could be, and I felt it was missing for me in American film. I didn't see anybody I was watching in movies that felt like me. I felt rather tortured and lonely about it.
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#34. If you're in somebody's head for 12 hours a day for four weeks, it's like your brain actually wires itself to start thinking that way.
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#35. I'd say there's more of a difference between a play and movie to TV than there is between TV and movies. But there's something involved in the repetition of things that require something different from me in order to sign onto a script.
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#36. I think the interesting aspect of life is that you're always sort of in the middle. You're never the youngest and you're never the oldest.
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#38. There were times my mom and I butted heads - over my curfew, over something like that. Whenever we would hit these moments of emotional backfire, she would say, 'You just don't understand what it's like to be a mother ... I could never handle losing you.' I was like, 'OK, but just, like, chill out.'
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#39. I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.
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#40. I'm just getting my sea legs. The first time you make them laugh, you're like, 'Oh my God - that just happened.' Then you're like, 'I made them laugh. I've earned this.'
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#41. Whenever you want something that you're not going to get, suddenly the whiney 3-year-old comes out in you.
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#42. What 'Short Term 12' did was it gave me the confidence to explore my intuition more. The healing process that came for me for making that movie and then sharing it with people - I was able to see, first hand, that movies can have a healing power and they can teach us things.
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#43. In the past I've been very into the falling part, very into the swimming in the dark, deep emotional water. 'Rampart' I really went into it and it took me three times as long to get out of that depression as it did to just do the scenes. I had to learn to give it my all and then go home and laugh.
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#44. I really love learning about animals. I pull from a deck of spirit animal cards. You pull one, and it's about 50 or 60 different animals, and then that day you read whichever animal you pull. And it kind of gives you insight.
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#45. There is beauty in living in a small space, as a child. Some aspects of it are so beautiful, and it's so nice to not see the darkness. But then, in other ways, there's a whole range of experience that's being missed because of it.
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#46. I think that, especially as the kids are growing up, they have so much stuff going on in their own lives, they don't really know how much they're looking at their mom as the big problem
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#47. I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from 'Alice in Wonderland,' so we've got some strange names in our family.
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#48. Sometimes you pick up on the myth and it's just an accident. I think it comes naturally out of people, and some people are aware of it.
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#49. For the most part, I've stayed as far away as possible from high school movies. I just don't find them to be that relatable to everybody? They become like this: 'Look at that period of time. Isn't that interesting?'
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#50. I didn't want to just watch a woman who was getting it right all the time. We're not perfect.
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#51. To find the courage to do what I want to do for myself has been hard.
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#52. I was 3 when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor.
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#53. Surrounding myself with women of different backgrounds and on different paths and in different stages of their lives has become so valuable to me.
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#54. I can't help but trip out about how similar my life is to 'Room.' It's me wanting to stay in my own little bubble and remain anonymous and invisible and at the same time needing to step up to this hand that I've been given.
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#55. We don't have to live in a world where everyone reacts perfectly the first time around, and if you don't, everything falls apart, and no one speaks to you ever again.
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#56. I'm 25. I'm a white, blonde girl in the entertainment industry - it's so easy to fall into a world of pleasing everyone. I feel more comfortable showing all these odd angles to myself.
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#57. You have to be really comfortable with yourself because people are going to tell you that you're eyes are too brown or you're this or you're that. And if you're not comfortable with yourself, you could get pretty freaked out.
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#58. My first acting gig was a skit for Jay Leno on 'The Tonight Show.' It was this Barbie commercial where I got to pour mud all over Barbie dolls and watch the heads pop off. It was so exciting, a lot of fun.
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#59. I only write about stuff I know. I don't have a lot of experience with boys and stuff so I write a lot of songs about interesting and strange subjects that people wouldn't write songs about.
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#60. For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school.
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#61. For me, 'Room' is an opportunity to relive an aspect of my childhood that I hadn't put a ton of thought into.
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#62. I'm not really out in the world all that much. I mean, I live with no phone signal, in the hills surrounded by trees, and I have, like, a mom and two baby deer that come by all the time, and my dogs and the squirrels are in a full-on feud every morning.
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#63. I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chasing the turkey. All the other mom's encouraged my mom to get me into acting after that. Also, when I saw 'The Sound of Music' at Music Circus, I knew I wanted to act.
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#64. There's obviously something that feels very good about being with a new filmmaker who's very excited, but I also think there's something very comforting in a director who's been around a few times. Both have their pros and cons.
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#65. I went through a phase of eating dinner in the shower because I thought, 'Why don't we do that?' Then I realised, 'Because it doesn't make any sense.' It doesn't save any time, and you can't really get into a steak and baked potato when there's water pouring on you.
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#66. Growing up, I just loved movies. It was how I saw the world, which I wanted to learn more about.
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#67. I was home-schooled, was always very close with my mom and was very straight-laced and square. I was never the rebellious one, and I never threw hissy fits.
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#68. The idea of singing and dancing throughout my life and finding that bliss is something I wanted to express and explore within myself and hopefully spread that idea to other people.
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#69. You could put me on a stage in front of 100 people, and I could do a tap dance, but one-on-one was really difficult for me. And it took me most of my life to learn how to work with that anxiety, to embrace and be comfortable with it.
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#70. I'm not a gourmet. I just like the planet.
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#71. I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.
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#72. The thing I was always most protective of was my mystery. I worried that if I gave too much of myself, then I would limit the characters I could fall into.
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#73. Instruments fascinate me because they're completely awkward. When I picked up a guitar for the first time I was like, "What is this?" because it's so foreign and unknown.
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#74. I've always felt like I've had the ability to choose which roles I was going to play. I don't think that the industry agreed with me, but I've always had a bit of a headstrong attitude of only doing the things that I really believe in and want to explore.
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#75. I had collages in my bedroom when I was a teenager.
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#76. It takes a lot of time and a lot of energy and a lot of focus and dedication to do a film, and it's just not worth it if you're going to be miserable for even a day.
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#77. I've become more comfortable as time has gone on with saying goodbye because ... I've been having so many conversations about the cyclical nature of life. It just keeps going.
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#78. Sometimes you never fully understand why you are attracted to a project until you get deeper into it.
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#79. I was the type of person that would show a PowerPoint presentation about why I should do something versus crying and screaming over it.
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#80. I don't really have any people in my life who aren't gypsies.
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#81. I have a lot of different influences. Everything from Maroon 5, Gwen Stefani, The Clash, Kanye West - just a lot of different artists.
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#82. I was listening to a lot of Norwegian black metal and death metal. There's a great history to Norwegian black metal. That music is very dark and violent, but it's also beautiful.
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#83. I think more things are becoming socially acceptable. I think that just by having more media, whether that's TV or Internet, we're able to see more things.
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#84. You know how it is when you put on your best friend's shirt. You feel weird, even if everyone tells you that it looks good. You know that it isn't right.
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#85. Each step of the way, I'm learning. When I leave an interview, I learn whether I feel, 'Oh, that was nice,' or that made me feel like a little piece of me was taken.
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#86. It can get really messy inside my head, and it's usually just because everybody can get really self-centered at some point. And so what usually keeps me from quitting is that my reasons for quitting are just lame. I wouldn't want anybody else to talk to myself the way that I talk to myself.
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#87. I like working, I just don't like to get involved in the competitiveness of it.
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#88. I just don't want to stop finding things interesting. I don't want to ever stop learning. I want to be a weird encyclopedia of bizarre knowledge.
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#89. I'm learning with the older that I get that some feelings are just universal and that I'm not the only one who hates their hair or their life at times.
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#90. The same myths are told in every culture, and they might swap out details, but it's still the same story. It's the same story, but with a different face.
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#91. I think that fashion is very important for me and I think that it's a wonderful means of self-expression.
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#92. 'Short Term 12' was such a marathon. It's like trying to convey the same emotional depth as 'The Gambler' but with less time and a fingernail's worth of the budget.
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#93. I'm just interested in all of the different ways that a woman can be. We don't have enough, when it comes to American film, that shows all of the different complexities and ways that a woman is interesting and mysterious and dynamic and really complicated.
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#94. I really love both acting and singing equally.
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#95. I'm kind of a morbid person. I'm very optimistic, but I also feel like I'm going to die at any moment. I feel very much aware of my mortality. I'm here, and then I'm not.
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#96. I didn't go to prom - I was homeschooled.
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#97. I'm looking for something to laugh over. After long enough, your body just needs to keep the hydration. You can't keep crying it out.
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#98. A big producer offered me the part of the pretty girl that waits at home for the guy, and I couldn't do it. That's not a story I ever want to tell.
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#99. It's very scary to allow the world to see you.
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#100. I love exploring the characters that I play, but the reason I sign on for something isn't the details of the story but the universal message.
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