Brie Larson Quotes

I’m sure that there’s frustration that comes with wanting to just have a normal mom. But, I don’t really know if they see it as any different than any other problem you might have with a parent. I think everybody can think about one thing that their parents used to do, all the time, that would embarrass you.

For me, the dumbest rule is that you can’t chew gum in school. For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.

I think that fashion is very important for me and I think that it’s a wonderful means of self-expression.

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.

Clothing totally changes my perception of how I feel about myself depending on what it is that I’m wearing.

I was home-schooled ’cause I wanted to be an actor. I would spend all day watching movies, trying to get through calculus.

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’m so used to swimming with the piranhas. And they’re really not that bad.

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.

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.

I have always been really picky about the films that I make, because I think that there’s such an incredible opportunity to bring up questions when you’re making movies, and some of my favorite films bring up big questions. They are movies that, when you walk away from it, it hits you as something deeper, and it’s a great, fun way to be able to bounce around some of these harder concepts in our heads.

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.