I'm competitive with myself.
— Brie Larson
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.
I don't really have any people in my life who aren't gypsies.
Everything is changing all the time, and I'm not going to stress out and spend my entire time chasing something that ultimately doesn't exist.
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.
It's very scary to allow the world to see you.
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.
Whenever you want something that you're not going to get, suddenly the whiney 3-year-old comes out in you.
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.
I didn't go to prom - I was homeschooled.
For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school.
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.
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.
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.
Sometimes you never fully understand why you are attracted to a project until you get deeper into it.
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.
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.
I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from 'Alice in Wonderland,' so we've got some strange names in our family.
I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.
Sometimes I laugh with my parents, and sometimes I yell at them, and both are therapeutic.
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.
I'm so used to swimming with the piranhas. And they're really not that bad.
For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.
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.
I'm just a person. I'm not anything!
There isn't anyone in my life who is going to get upset about how much travelling I have to do or whether or not I'm available for drinks that night.
I remembered moving from Sacramento to Los Angeles with my mum when I was seven and my sister was three or four.
I can be whoever I want. I can feel however I want.
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.
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.
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.
I was the type of person that would show a PowerPoint presentation about why I should do something versus crying and screaming over it.
Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.
I was 3 when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor.
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.
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.
