I would go into periods of depression in my life, and I would feel so alone. I felt that there was no one who understood how I felt, either on TV or in music, and writing really helped me change what I thought and how I felt about myself. Brie Larson More Quotes by Brie Larson More Quotes From Brie Larson Maybe you're not perfect, but you're willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That's a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there's something incredibly hopeful about that. Brie Larson perfect mean thinking For me, I believe that just seeing women be strong and tough is not answering the question of what a female hero looks like. Women have their own set of skills that are worth exploring and seeing on screen. Brie Larson strong hero believe 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. Brie Larson hate hair feelings I want more awareness of humanity in this world. Brie Larson humanity want world I had started acting when I was 7, and I was always wrong. I would always get to the very end [of the audition], but I wasn't a perfect package of one thing. I wasn't a cliche, and it always worked against me. I wasn't pretty enough to play the popular girl, I wasn't mousy enough to be the mousy girl. Then there was a TV show that Toni Collette was starring in. And when a role to play a girl who was struggling with identity came, I thought: "Oh, this is what I was supposed to do. Everything's leading up to this moment." I was 18. I was like, "This is it." I didn't get it. And I was devastated. Brie Larson tv-shows girl struggle Sometimes I laugh with my parents, and sometimes I yell at them, and both are therapeutic. Brie Larson parent sometimes laughing 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. Brie Larson just-being actors girl It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you. Brie Larson humans judging thinking One of the reasons I love making movies is because it's an opportunity to share with the world a different way of being or a different way of living or seeing the world. If it's something you've already seen before, if I have too many reference points for it, then it's not exciting for me to make. Brie Larson different opportunity world I feel like it's too easy to just say, "We'll just change the name of this male character to a female, but have her do all the same things that a male does." I don't believe in that. I think there's something else. I think there's more to women than that. Brie Larson character believe thinking Part of accepting a role is being interested in the character and part of it is being interested in the movie or what it means and the exploration of it. But it's more about not knowing the answers to certain questions but wanting to go on the journey of discovery to find the answers. Brie Larson journey character mean 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. Brie Larson life-is interesting thinking It's very scary to allow the world to see you. Brie Larson scary world I usually get my lyrics when I let my mind wander, when you're not really awake, but not yet fully asleep. I keep an open notebook by my bed and then just write whatever comes to me. Brie Larson notebook mind writing 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. Brie Larson black dark beautiful Surrounding myself with women of different backgrounds and on different paths and in different stages of their lives has become so valuable to me. Brie Larson stage different path When I take on a character, it's a sacrifice. There's something that you give up every time. I want to become these characters, and I want to be mysterious, but if you know too much about me, it's not going to be too much fun watching me play a character, because it's just going to be me with a mask on, instead of you believing what the mask is. Brie Larson giving-up fun believe 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. Brie Larson doe brain needs I'm so used to swimming with the piranhas. And they're really not that bad. Brie Larson swimming used 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. Brie Larson dark home fall
